Form

Question 1

Ballad

Answer 1

• Arranged in quatrains
• ABAB rhyme scheme
• Narrative tone

Question 2

Blank Verse

Answer 2

• Un-rhyming verse
• Iambic pentameter
• Consistent meter
• 10 syllables in each line

Question 3

Sonnet Form

Answer 3

• Traditional form used to talk about love
• Conventional form of poetry
• Male established form

Question 4

Petrarchan Sonnet

Answer 4

• 8 line octave followed by a sestet
• ABBA rhyme scheme
• Established by Petrarch -> Italian Sonnet Form

Question 5

Shakesperean Sonnet

Answer 5

• ABAB rhyme scheme ending on a rhyming couplet
• Contains a volta at around line 9
• Rhyming couplet usually summarises and reafirms the poem/ poet’s ideas

Question 6

Dramatic Monologue

Answer 6

•Type of poetry written in form of an individual character

Question 7

Free Verse

Answer 7

• No fixed rhyme scheme

* No sense of rhythm/ meter

Question 8

Elegy

Answer 8

• A poems written for the death of someone

* Lamenting tone to express loss

Question 9

Ode

Answer 9

• Poem that praises people and natural/abstract scenery
• Lyrical in nature –> Follows a rhyme scheme
• No specific structure to rhyme

Question 10

What does an Ode explore?

Answer 10

Used to explore themes and observations like:
• Human relations
• Emotions
• Senses

Question 11

Epic

Answer 11

• Long narrative poem

* Usually about heroic deeds and events –> significant to culture of poet

Question 12

Lyric

Answer 12

• Form of poetry which expresses personal emotions/feelings
• Spoken in first person
• Song like structure

Question 13

Narrative poem

Answer 13

• Form = tells a story
• Makes use of the narrator/ character’s voice
• Usually written in metred verse
• Do not have to follow rhythmic patterns