Comparing Poetry and Art Answers

Which line is written in iambic tetrameter?

I plan to eat a healthy breakfast.

I brush my teeth first thing in the morning.

I try to fall asleep by ten.

I never like waking up.

The boys are up the woods with day

To fetch the daffodils away,

And home at noonday from the hills

They bring no dearth of daffodils

Which statement best describes the effect of meter in the first line of the poem?

The stress on shall meet emphasizes the speaker's desire to make new friends.

The stress on I and my emphasizes that the speaker is selfish and self-centered.

The stress on know and fate emphasizes the speaker's certainty that he will die in combat.

Which lines in this section of the poem are refrains? Check all that apply.

"Do not go gentle into that good night"

"Old age should burn and rave at close of day"

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"

"Though wise men at their end know dark is right"

"Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright"

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