The Poetic Stylings of Poems Themselves Quiz

Answer: It should not take you quite a while.

A limerick is a five-line poem with an "aa bb a" rhyme scheme, so the last word here has to rhyme with "style" and "guile". The meter of lines 1, 2, and 5 is "ua uua uua", where "u" and "a" are "unaccented" and "accented" respectively.

Answer: And yet, the answer, swiftly will I find.

The Shakespearean sonnet's rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg, so the last word here must rhyme with "mind". Each line must be iambic pentameter. An iamb has a "ua" meter, such as "today", or "alike". There must be five iambs in each line. "Obviously" is obviously not iambic!

Answer: Thus this is that which gets the points for you.

In this case, the rhyme scheme and meter are not important! In an acrostic, the initial letters of each line spell a word (often, but not always, a name). Here, you need to choose the answer whose first letter completes the word "correct".

Answer: And want to learn more.

A haiku is a three-line poem with 5, 7, and 5 syllables in the three lines. Rhymes are optional.

Answer: Any of these will work.

This should be easy! Free verse does not require a certain number of lines, meter, rhyme, or any structure whatsoever. Any of the answers, including "Any of these will work," are perfectly valid. (Not very "poetic", perhaps, but valid for free verse.)

Answer: Prose

As mentioned, a diamante poem is so named because it forms a diamond. There are two types of diamante, synonymic and antonymic. In synonymic diamante, the first word and last word are related. In antonymic diamante, the first and last words contrast (they don't have to be opposites, strictly speaking). This antonymic diamante contrasts poetry and prose. The poem is always seven lines, with the following structure:
Line 1 - One word, opening theme.
Line 2 - Two adjectives describing the opening word.
Line 3 - Three words, ending in "ing", describing the opening word.
Line 4 - Four words, two relating to the opening word, and two relating to the closing word.
Line 5 - Three words, ending in "ing", describing the closing word.
Line 6 - Two adjectives describing the closing word.
Line 7 - One word, closing theme.
As you can see (I hope!), a diamante poem is symmetric about the middle words of the middle line. The trick is to make that line flow. I hope this one did!

Answer: To the beyond, ne'er returning again, he has passed, alas.

An elegy is a sad poem, generally about someone's death. In the original elegiac form it consists of two lines, the first of dactylic hexameter, and the second of dactylic pentameter. A dactyl is a set of three syllables with the stress pattern "auu", as in "baseball bat" or, fittingly, "poetry". Regardless of how well I did with the meter, only one of the answers was sufficiently sad for an elegy.

Answer: And thus he returned, yet brave, ever stalwart, a hero for e'er more.

An epic is a very long poem (ain'tcha glad I left out the other 1,768 lines?), usually about a hero or a great adventure. The Iliad and Odyssey are classic examples (pun intended).

Answer: None of these

As the name suggests, a quatrain has four lines. The "sample" already had four, so any extra line would render it a quatrain no longer! Quatrains also have alternating rhymes, "abab", but that's not really relevant once you try to make a five-line quatrain.

Answer: All hail the genius shown by Tchochkekop!

An ode is a poem of praise, extolling or honoring a person. OK, so this ode was very self serving, but, hey, it was tough writing all these poems! By the way, the "dreamy" line refers to the team I play for (and with), Dream Weavers.