Across
- 3. - Homer's Iliad hexameter war saga
- 5. - DUM-da-da's Homeric hexameter trot
- 7. OUM - Cross-acrostic's word web weave
- 10. AZAL - Rumi's beloved refrain mystic couplet
- 12. - Coleridge's ancient mariner rhyme tale
- 13. - Pause mid-line's dramatic breath halt
- 14. - da-DUM's Shakespearean heartbeat pulse
- 15. - Nantucket's bouncy anapestic nonsense
- 16. - Keats's urn's eternal beauty hymn
- 17. - da-da-DUM's galloping rhythm ride
- 19. EE - Heavy foot's emphatic stress slam
- 20. - Gray's country churchyard mournful toll
Down
- 1. - Longfellow's Hiawatha foot beat
- 2. - Dylan Thomas's villanelle rage repeat
- 4. - Line-break's thought-spanning overflow spill
- 6. RIMA - Dante's interlocking rhyme chain
- 8. - Whitman's leaf of grass unbound flow
- 9. - Shakespeare's iambic turn couplet crown
- 11. - Frog pond's syllable leap five-seven-five
- 18. - Spenser's shepherd calendar stanza spin