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Memorable Lines from Poetry Trivia Quiz

Here are some memorable lines from some poems. You may recognize some of them.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
18,087

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
2361

Last 3 plays: mfc (9/10), Guest 197 (6/10), Guest 174 (10/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. 'I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above ...' Hint

Thomas Gray

Alexander Pope

William Butler Yeats

Matthew Arnold

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'Ride, boldly ride, the shade replied, if you seek for Eldorado' Hint

Robert Browning

Edgar Allan Poe

Vachel Lindsay

John Clare

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the hill' Hint

Andrew Marvell

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Robert Louis Stevenson

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'The fog comes on little cat feet ...' Hint

Carl Sandburg

John Dryden

Robert Burns

Oscar Wilde

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'O Captain! My Captain!' Hint

Walt Whitman

Christina Rossetti

John Masefield

Sylvia Plath

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'This is the way the world ends - not with a bang, but a whimper' Hint

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

T.S. Eliot

Emily Dickinson

John Milton

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood ...' Hint

William Blake

Thomas Hood

W.H. Auden

Robert Frost

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night ...' Hint

Lord Byron

John Keats

William Wordsworth

Percy Shelley

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'When I was one and twenty, I heard a wise man say ... Hint

William Ernest Henley

A.E. Housman

Richard Lovelace

Ezra Pound

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'He weaves and is clothed in derision ...' Hint

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dante Rossetti

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ernest Dowson

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Oct 23 2024 : mfc: 9/10
Sep 26 2024 : Guest 197: 6/10
Sep 25 2024 : Guest 174: 10/10

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above ...'

Answer: William Butler Yeats

'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death'

2. 'Ride, boldly ride, the shade replied, if you seek for Eldorado'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

'Eldorado'

3. 'Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the hill'

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

'Requiem'

4. 'The fog comes on little cat feet ...'

Answer: Carl Sandburg

'Fog'

5. 'O Captain! My Captain!'

Answer: Walt Whitman

From the poem of the same name - about Lincoln

6. 'This is the way the world ends - not with a bang, but a whimper'

Answer: T.S. Eliot

'The Hollow Men'

7. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood ...'

Answer: Robert Frost

'The Road Not Taken'

8. 'So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night ...'

Answer: Lord Byron

From the poem of the same name

9. 'When I was one and twenty, I heard a wise man say ...

Answer: A.E. Housman

Again, from the poem of the same name

10. 'He weaves and is clothed in derision ...'

Answer: Algernon Charles Swinburne

'Before the Beginning of Years'

Source: Author robert362

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