Excerpt from “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft, In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, 5 Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
1. What poetic device or quality makes this poem closed form? (1 point)
blank verse structure
use of enjambment
inclusion of end-stopped lines
repeated use of near-end rhymes
abundant alliteration, assonance, and consonance
2. Use the poem to answer the question. What part of this poem would most likely be removed if it were revised to be open form? (1 point)
the enjambment
the number of lines
the rhyme scheme
the rhythm
the underlying metaphor
2. The rhyme scheme would most likely be removed if the poem were revised to be open form.
Excerpt from “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft, In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, 5 Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
1. What poetic device or quality makes this poem closed form? (1 point)
blank verse structure
use of enjambment
inclusion of end-stopped lines
repeated use of near-end rhymes
abundant alliteration, assonance, and consonance