Poetry and Literature Trivia Questions
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In which country were the rules of sonnet writing developed by poets such as Guittone D'Arezzo?
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italy
Which term, derived from the Latin word for 'four', describes a poem or stanza consisting of 4 lines?
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quatrain
Which poet wrote the line, 'Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me'?
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emily dickinson
Which poet's first collection of poems included 'To a Mouse' and 'To a Louse'?
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robert burns
According to Ogden Nash's verse, what insect did God make 'in his wisdom' and then forgot to tell us why?
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fly
Which poet wrote the lines 'To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower'?
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william blake
According to Richard Lovelace, what do 'stone walls' not create?
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prison
Which poet, born on October 31, 1795, wrote the phrase 'a joy forever'?
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john keats
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