"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale Quiz

Answer: 12

There are six stanzas in the poem. Each stanza has two lines that rhyme.

Answer: swallows and robins

Swallows are mentioned in line two: "And swallows circling with their shimmering sound". Robins are in line five: "Robins will wear their feathery fire".

Answer: in the pool

This is from line three. The line reads: "And frogs in the pool singing at night".

Answer: white

Plum trees are mentioned in line four. The line goes "And wild plum trees in tremulous white". When they are in bloom, plum trees are white.

Answer: Spring

Line eleven and twelve read: "And Spring herself when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone." The "we" is referring to humans.

Answer: they perished utterly

Lines nine and ten read: "Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly". Mankind perished in a war. The poem was written not long after World War I.

Answer: no one

The beginning of line seven reads "And not one will know of the war". The war is what killed the humans in the poem. The last part of the line is "not one", which goes with line eight, but it is used to make the two lines rhyme. Line eight is "will care at last when it is done".

Answer: smell, ground

That is the first line of the poem. The first part is where the title of the poem comes from.

Answer: Whistling, low

That quote is the sixth line. The line shows personification in the fact that robins can't have whims. It comes after the line "Robins will wear their feathery fire".

Answer: True

Sara Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She died on January 29, 1933 after overdosing on sleeping pills. In 1918, she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.