Poetry - Form

What Form is ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ written in?

Traditional medieval Ballad (love)

Rhyme scheme = ABCB

What Form is ‘If’ written in?

A didactic poem

4 stanzas

Consistent rhyme scheme (ABABCDCD)

What Form is ‘Prayer Before Birth’ written in?

Free verse

Dramatic monologue

No set rhyme scheme

What Form is ‘Blessing’ written in?

Free Verse

Irregular stanzas - spontaneous nature of the situation

What Form is ‘Search For My Tongue’ written in?

Free verse

What Form is ‘Half-Past Two’ written in?

Free verse

Irregular stanzas

What Form is ‘Piano’ written in?

Lyric poem

3 quatrains

Consistent rhyme scheme (AABB)

What Form is ‘Hide and Seek’ written in?

Free verse

1 long stanza

What Form is ‘Sonnet 116’ written in?

Sonnent - 3 quatrains and a couplet

Rhyme scheme = ABABCDCDEFEFGG

Iambic pentameter

What Form is ‘Poem At Thirty Nine’ written in?

Free verse

Irregular stanza lengths

What Form is ‘War Photographer’ written in?

Four sestets

Rhyme scheme = ABBCDD

What Form is ‘My Last Duchess’ written in?

Drama monologue

Iambic pentameter couplets - heroic couplets

What Form is ‘The Tyger’ written in?

Lyric poem

Six quatrains

Rhyme scheme = AABB

What Form is ‘Half Caste’ written in?

Free verse

Irregular stanzas

Non-standard punctuation

What Form is ‘Do Not Go Gentle’ written in?

Villanelle

Rhyme - ABA

What Form is ‘Remember’ written in?

Petrarchan Sonnet