TWO QUESTIONS
1. Which of the following characteristics is NOT necessary for a piece of writing to be considered poetry?
a
Emphasizes language and its musical qualities
b
Uses condensed language
c
Features intense emotion
d
Must rhyme
2.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20
Continue to use the poem above. What might the rhyme scheme of the first stanza be?
a
ABAAB
b
ABABA
c
ABBBA
d
AAABB