The Shape Of Poetry Worksheet Template printable pdf download

The Shape Of Poetry Worksheet Template

Form: The Shape of Poetry

True-False

Write T if the statement is true or F if it is false.

__t___ 1. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, many poets

have rejected regular patterns in favor of poems

that appear more free and spontaneous.

__t___ 2. Blank verse is one of the most common closed forms of

English poetry.

__f___ 3. Shakespeare used blank verse extensively in his long

epic Paradise Lost.

__t___ 4. Blank verse sounds like normal speech.

__t___ 5. Couplets have been featured in English poetry ever

since Chaucer used them in the fourteenth century.

__t___ 6. The heroic couplet was used by prominent poets in

the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century neoclassical

age of English literature.

__f___ 7. The tercet is the most common and adaptable stanzaic

building block of English poetry.

__t___ 8. Like couplets and tercets, quatrains may be written in

any line length and meter.

__t___ 9. The sonnet is one of the most popular and durable

closed poetic forms.

__t__ 10. The ballad is one of the oldest closed forms in English

poetry.

__f__ 11. The lyric has a more variable stanzaic form than the

ode.

__t__ 12. According to Japanese tradition, the subject of the

haiku is derived from nature.

The Shape Of Poetry Worksheet Template