Poetic forms: fill in the blanks · Grades 11–12

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• sonnet · elegy · couplet · sestina ____ terza rima ____ haiku · odes ghazal
• 1 In a ____, six end words rotate through six stanzas in a fixed pattern.
• 2 Fourteen lines is the defining length of a ____.
• 3 The · traveled from Arabic poetry into Persian, Urdu and, more recently,
• English.
• 4 A Shakespearean sonnet often saves its turn for the final rhyming ____.
• 5 An · often moves from grief toward some form of consolation.
• 6 Traditional Japanese · count sound units in a pattern of five, seven and five.
• 7 Dante's Divine Comedy is written in ____, three-line stanzas linked by rhyme.
• 8 John Keats wrote · addressed to a nightingale, a Grecian urn and the season of autumn.