Rhyme and Reason: A Poet's Puzzle
Across
- 1. A grouped set of lines in a poem
- 3. Reclusive 19th-century poet who wrote Because I could not stop for Death
- 4. Author of The Raven and master of dark poetry
- 8. English playwright who wrote 154 famous sonnets
- 10. The repetition of similar ending sounds in lines
- 12. When a line of poetry runs onto the next without pause
- 15. American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself
- 16. A sorrowful poem, often honoring the dead
- 17. A figure of speech comparing unlike things directly
- 18. Two rhyming lines of verse in succession
- 19. A three-line Japanese poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern
Down
- 1. A 14-line poem, famously used by Shakespeare
- 2. Beat poet who shocked the world with Howl in 1956
- 5. A lyrical poem that praises its subject
- 6. Wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud about daffodils
- 7. Wrote The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- 9. African-American poet and activist who wrote Still I Rise
- 11. British Romantic poet known for Ode on a Grecian Urn
- 13. The structured rhythm of lines in a poem
- 14. Chilean Nobel Prize winner known for Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair