National Poetry Month

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Across
  1. 3. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
  2. 8. The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words
  3. 9. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" poet
  4. 10. A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme
  5. 11. The author of "The Raven"
  6. 13. Shakespeare's plays often include this type of unrhymed verse
  7. 14. The central idea or message of a poem
Down
  1. 1. Poetry that does not follow a specific structure or rhyme scheme
  2. 2. A repeated line or phrase in a poem, often in songs
  3. 4. A Japanese form of poetry with 17 syllables
  4. 5. April is ______ Poetry Month
  5. 6. Emily Dickinson is known for writing in short lines and using many of these punctuation marks
  6. 7. The "I" or speaker of a poem
  7. 12. Langston Hughes was part of this cultural movement
  8. 13. A type of poem that tells a story