Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. It was many and many a ye
ar ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. (from "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe) O thou, new-year, delaying long, Delayest the sorrow in my blood, That longs to burst a frozen bud And flood a fresher throat with song. (from "In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson) Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,; So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. (from "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost) At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair, Whom young Apollo courted for her hair, And offered as a dower his burning throne, Where she should sit for men to gaze upon. The outside of her garments were of lawn, The lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "Hero and Leander" by Christopher Marlowe) Structure Poem quatrain arrowRight couplet arrowRight octave arrowRight sestet arrowRight
A sestet is a stanza composed of six lines, a quatrain of four lines, an octave is written in eight lines, and a couplet is a set of two rhyming lines, usually written in the same meter.
It is important to note that the definitions of all these types of stanzas have varied with different works and origins and some can further be classified into various sub-types depending on their position in the poem, meter, use, etc., and can be further elaborated with typical rhyme schemes that they use; however, the common aspect that they share is the number of lines, which is what the question is based on.
