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Year 8 English · Poetry: sound and form

Name: ______________________

Date: ____________

1. How many lines are in a quatrain? Type a number.
2. Line endings: day, tree, way, see. What is the rhyme scheme?
- ☐ (a) AABB
- ☐ (b) ABAB
- ☐ (c) ABBA
- ☐ (d) ABCD
3. Which best describes free verse?
- ☐ (a) Poetry with a strict ABAB rhyme scheme
- ☐ (b) Poetry without regular rhyme or rhythm
- ☐ (c) A poem of exactly 14 lines
- ☐ (d) A poem that must be funny
4. What is a two-line stanza called? (one word)
5. Which line uses assonance?
- ☐ (a) Big black bears bounced.
- ☐ (b) The cool blue moon looms soon.
- ☐ (c) Crash! Bang! Wallop!
- ☐ (d) The dog barked at the gate.
6. Which line contains internal rhyme?
- ☐ (a) The wind blew hard across the field.
- ☐ (b) The night was bright with silver light.
- ☐ (c) A tiny mouse ran up the wall.
- ☐ (d) The sea is wide and deep.
7. A poem about a train uses a fast, steady, repeating rhythm. What is the most likely effect?
- ☐ (a) It mimics the regular clatter and speed of the train.
- ☐ (b) It makes the poem feel slow and sleepy.
- ☐ (c) It shows the poet could not think of other words.
- ☐ (d) It turns the poem into free verse.
8. What is the name for a group of lines that forms a unit in a poem? (one word)

Answer sheet

1. 4 — A quatrain is a four-line stanza.
2. ABAB — Day/way rhyme (A) and tree/see rhyme (B), alternating: ABAB.
3. Poetry without regular rhyme or rhythm — Free verse is free of fixed rhyme and metre.
4. couplet — Two lines form a couplet; three a tercet; four a quatrain.
5. The cool blue moon looms soon. — The repeated 'oo' vowel sound in cool, blue, moon, looms and soon is assonance.
6. The night was bright with silver light. — 'Night', 'bright' and 'light' rhyme within the same line.
7. It mimics the regular clatter and speed of the train. — Rhythm can echo the subject – here, wheels clattering over the tracks.
8. stanza — A stanza is like a paragraph in a poem.