Poetry

Poetry Worksheet





1. a) Out of childhood into manhood trochaic tetrameter
Now had grown my Hiawatha
(from: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha) or: anapestic dimeter
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b) There was a young lady from Niger
who smiled when she rode on a tiger
(from: trad. Limerick)


c) The Grave's a fine and private place iambic tetrameter
But none I think do there embrace
(from: Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress")



d) The long day wanes, the slow moon climbs iambic tetrameter
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