Books Quiz - Poetry 4 (Answers)
Poetry expresses a whole variety of moods, from the serious reflection of an elegy to the joy (or heartbreak!) of a love sonnet. But there is one particular style always guaranteed to raise a smile – comic verse. The best known form of comic verse is of course the limerick. Here’s a well-known example:
There was a young woman from Leeds,
Who swallowed a packet of seeds.
In less than an hour
Her ears were in flower
And her hair was covered in weeds!
This is the last of our four poetry quizzes - and indeed the last in our series of eighty-one quizzes on books. I hope you’ve enjoyed and also been informed by this section. And, whichever genre or author you prefer, may we wish you many hours of happy reading!
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The Weser flows through Hamelin and Bremen on its way from Lower Saxony to the North Sea
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Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the piece, which are often recited when it is performed
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He wrote it in praise of his cousin, Lady Anne Wilmot Horton
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More than 50 literary greats have followed Chaucer. There are also over 80 memorials for poets/writers and artists who are buried elsewhere
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Here's an example: "There was an Old Man in a tree, |
The humorous poem has 8 verses, each written in the form of a limerick
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They had a Christmas Number One in 1968 with Lily the Pink
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He was committed there in 1841 after having spent an earlier spell in an asylum in Epping Forest
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He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967
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The main theme of the series is mortality and the need to seize the mm oment. An example is these lines from Reveille: "When the journey's over |