Grade 9

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Across
  1. 3. The virtue personified in "On His Blindness"
  2. 6. The overconfident actor whose head is turned into a donkey
  3. 9. The Queen of the Amazons
  4. 11. The central theme of "How do I Love Thee?"
  5. 14. A season compared to the poet's beloved in Sonnet 18
  6. 15. What Milton must rely on to accept his blindness
  7. 17. "Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May" is an example of this
  8. 19. A symbol of blindness and inner doubt in "On his Blindness"
  9. 20. A four-line stanza making up three sections in a Shakespearean sonnet
  10. 21. The last six lines of a Petrarchan Sonnet
Down
  1. 1. The force that erodes beauty but is defeated by poetry in Sonnet 18
  2. 2. The first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet
  3. 4. The shift in thought commonly found in the ninth line.
  4. 5. Repeating a phrase at the start of lines
  5. 7. The surname of the poet who wrote "On his blindness"
  6. 8. The final two rhyming lines of a Shakespearean Sonnet
  7. 10. Another word for a Petrarchan Sonnet
  8. 12. The mischievous fairy who causes confusion with the love potion
  9. 13. The man Egeus wants Hermia to marry.
  10. 16. A mechanical who plays the wall in the play within a play
  11. 18. A mechanical who plays the lion and worries about scaring the ladies.
  12. 19. What love overcomes in "How do I love thee"