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Famous Poems: 20 Multiple-Choice Questions

Are you ready to test your knowledge of famous poems? Here’s a fun and challenging way to see how well you know some of the most iconic works in literature.

In this quiz, we’ll ask you 20 multiple-choice questions about classic poems by renowned authors such as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and more. So take out your books (or just scroll through your memory), and get ready to prove your poetry prowess!

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Famous Poems: 20 Multiple-Choice Questions

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“Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow.”

 

– What is the title of this poem?

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“The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.”

– Who is the author of this poem?

3 / 20

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;” – What is the next line of this poem by T.S. Eliot?

4 / 20

“Water, water, everywhere, 

And all the boards did shrink; 

Water, water, everywhere, 

Nor any drop to drink.”

 

 – What is the title of this poem?

5 / 20

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 

Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”

 

 – Who is the author of this poem?

6 / 20

“roll the dice” is the opening line of a poem by Charles Bukowski.

What is the next line of this poem?

7 / 20

“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me -”

– What is the next line of this poem?

8 / 20

“For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, 

They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude.” 

 

– Who is the author of this poem?

9 / 20

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 

But I have promises to keep, 

And miles to go before I sleep, 

And miles to go before I sleep.” 

 

– Who is the author of this poem?

10 / 20

This coyness, lady, were no crime. 

We would sit down, 

and think which way To walk, 

and pass our long love’s day.”

 

– What is the title of this poem?

11 / 20

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.” 

– Who is the author of this poem?

12 / 20

“We real cool. We left school. We lurk late.”

– What is the next line of this poem by Gwendolyn Brooks?

13 / 20

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach.”

 

– Who is the author of this poem?

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“Still I Rise” is a famous poem by Maya Angelou. What is the next line of this poem after “You may shoot me with your words”?

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“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is a famous sonnet by William Shakespeare. What is the next line of this poem after “Thou art more lovely and more temperate:”?

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“Ode to a Nightingale” is a famous poem by John Keats. What is the next line of this poem after “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains”?

17 / 20

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” 

– What is the title of this poem?

18 / 20

“And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”

 

 – What is the title of this poem?

19 / 20

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 

But I have promises to keep, 

And miles to go before I sleep, 

And miles to go before I sleep.”

 

 – What is the title of this poem?

20 / 20

“It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee.”

– Who is the author of this poem?

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Famous Poems: 20 Multiple-Choice Questions

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This coyness, lady, were no crime. 

We would sit down, 

and think which way To walk, 

and pass our long love's day."

 

- What is the title of this poem?

2 / 20

"I am the master of my fate, 

I am the captain of my soul." 

 

- What is the title of this poem?

3 / 20

"I wandered lonely as a cloud, 

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 

When all at once I saw a crowd, 

A host, of golden daffodils."

 

 - What is the title of this poem?

4 / 20

"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils."

 - What is the title of this poem?

5 / 20

"Still I Rise" is a famous poem by Maya Angelou. What is the next line of this poem after "You may shoot me with your words"?

6 / 20

"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong."

- Who is the author of this poem?

7 / 20

"The Second Coming" is a famous poem by William Butler Yeats. What is the next line of this poem after "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"?

8 / 20

"Because I could not be with you, I will write across the page the words I was too afraid to speak, I was too afraid to stay, I was too afraid to leave."

 

- What is the title of this poem?

9 / 20

"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all." 

- Who is the author of this poem?

10 / 20

"Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."

- What is the title of this poem?

11 / 20

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." 

 

- What is the title of this poem?

12 / 20

"The Sun Rising" is a famous poem by John Donne. What is the next line of this poem after "Busy old fool, unruly Sun, / Why dost thou thus"?

13 / 20

"Paradise Lost" is a famous epic poem by John Milton. What is the next line of this poem after "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit"?

14 / 20

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date." 

- What is the title of this poem?

15 / 20

"We real cool. We left school. We lurk late."

- What is the next line of this poem by Gwendolyn Brooks?

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"The End and the Beginning" is a famous poem by Wislawa Szymborska. What is the next line of this poem after "After every war / someone has to clean up"?

17 / 20

"Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

 

- Who is the author of this poem?

18 / 20

"Because I could not stop for Death, 

He kindly stopped for me; 

The carriage held but just ourselves, 

And Immortality."

 

- What is the title of this poem?

19 / 20

"Ozymandias" is a famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. What is the next line of this poem after "I met a traveller from an antique land"?

20 / 20

"Do not go gentle into that good night,

 Old age should burn and rave at close of day; 

Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

 

- Who is the author of this poem?

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Forms Of Poetry: 20 Multiple-Choice Questions

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Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by a repeated refrain, alternating with a series of quatrains, with a final quatrain as a coda?

2 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form in which a single poem is created by combining lines from multiple different poems, typically by different authors?

3 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form that uses the repetition of a single word or phrase at the end of each line, and can be as short as three lines or as long as multiple stanzas?

4 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by a five-line stanza with a syllable count of 2-4-6-8-2, and typically contains a humorous or witty twist at the end?

5 / 20

What is the name for a poetic form consisting of 14 lines with a specific rhyme scheme and meter?

6 / 20

Which of the following is NOT a form of Japanese poetry?

7 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with a rhyme scheme of A-B-A-B?

8 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms consists of a three-line stanza, with a syllable count of 5-7-5, but also includes a two-line stanza at the end, with a syllable count of 7-7?

9 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form in which a speaker addresses someone or something that is absent or not able to respond?

10 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables?

11 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms originated in ancient Greece and typically consists of a long narrative poem about heroic deeds?

12 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form in which each line or stanza repeats the same sequence of words, but in reverse order?

13 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form in which each line contains the same number of syllables?

14 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form that originated in ancient Arabic poetry, consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, typically used to express love or melancholy?

15 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by three stanzas of three lines each and a final quatrain?

16 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by a poem that describes or meditates on the natural world, often using vivid imagery and sensory language?

17 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by a poem that tells a story through a series of quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of ABAB?

18 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by six sestets and a final tercet, with a complex pattern of repeating end words?

19 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form consisting of a six-line stanza, with a rhyme scheme of A-A-B-B-C-C and a syllable count of 8-8-5-5-8-8?

20 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by a poem with three stanzas of three lines each, followed by a single four-line stanza, with a specific rhyme scheme and syllable count?

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