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Books Quiz - Poetry 4 (Questions)

Explore how poetry uses a speaking voice to tell a story or express feelings, and learn how the speaker guides a reader’s thoughts, emotions, and expectations.

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Fascinating Fact:

The speaker in a poem is a constructed voice, not necessarily the poet, and their viewpoint shapes the reader’s response.

In Specialist Books, this poetry quiz helps you read poems more closely. You will look at how structure, rhythm, and imagery work together to create meaning and emotional impact.

Key Terms

  • Stanza: A grouped set of lines in a poem, often separated by a space, which works like a paragraph in prose.
  • Rhythm: The pattern of beats or stresses in a poem, created by the arrangement of syllables and pauses.
  • Enjambment: When a sentence or phrase runs on from one line of poetry to the next without a finishing punctuation mark.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

How do I start analysing a poem?

Begin by reading the poem several times. Look for key images, repeated words, and changes in mood, then consider how the structure and line breaks support those ideas.

What features should I look for in poetry?

Useful features to notice include form, stanza length, rhythm, rhyme, imagery, and sound devices such as alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia.

Why is structure important in a poem?

Structure is important because it controls pace, emphasis, and contrast. Changes in stanza length, line length, or pattern can signal turning points or shifts in feeling.

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[ ] 6
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Books Quiz - Poetry 4 (Answers)
1. In Robert Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, the Piper leads the rats into which river?
[ ] The Main
[ ] The Moselle
[ ] The Saar
[x] The Weser
The Weser flows through Hamelin and Bremen on its way from Lower Saxony to the North Sea
2. Which American poet wrote a series of humorous verses to accompany the Saint-Saëns musical work The Carnival of the Animals?
[ ] John Berryman
[ ] EE Cummings
[x] Ogden Nash
[ ] James Thurber
Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the piece, which are often recited when it is performed
3. Who wrote the 1814 poem She Walks in Beauty?
[x] Lord Byron
[ ] Charles Lamb
[ ] Sir Walter Scott
[ ] William Wordsworth
He wrote it in praise of his cousin, Lady Anne Wilmot Horton
4. Who was the first person to be interred in Poets' Corner in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey?
[x] Geoffrey Chaucer
[ ] John Dryden
[ ] Ben Jonson
[ ] William Shakespeare
More than 50 literary greats have followed Chaucer. There are also over 80 memorials for poets/writers and artists who are buried elsewhere
5. How many lines are there in a limerick?
[ ] 4
[x] 5
[ ] 6
[ ] 7

Here's an example:

"There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
When they said, 'Does it buzz?'
He replied, 'Yes, it does!'
'It's a regular brute of a Bee!'"
6. One of Pam Ayres' poems is I Wish I'd Looked After Me... what?
[ ] Husband
[ ] Mother
[x] Teeth
[ ] Waistline
The humorous poem has 8 verses, each written in the form of a limerick
7. Which Liverpool poet was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s?
[ ] Pete Brown
[ ] Adrian Henri
[x] Roger McGough
[ ] Brian Patten
They had a Christmas Number One in 1968 with Lily the Pink
8. Which English poet died in 1864 in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum?
[ ] William Blake
[x] John Clare
[ ] Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[ ] Thomas Love Peacock
He was committed there in 1841 after having spent an earlier spell in an asylum in Epping Forest
9. Which English Poet Laureate also wrote the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights?
[ ] Alfred Austin
[ ] Cecil Day-Lewis
[x] John Masefield
[ ] Andrew Motion
He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967
10. What was the title of the cycle of sixty-three poems published by AE Houseman in 1896?
[x] A Shropshire Lad
[ ] A Staffordshire Lad
[ ] A Suffolk Lad
[ ] A Sussex Lad

The main theme of the series is mortality and the need to seize the moment. An example is these lines from Reveille:

"When the journey's over
There'll be time enough to sleep"
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