Question

Read the following poem by John Keats. What type of poem is it?

Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priest-like task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,[xxii]
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.

A.
haiku
B.
ballad
C.
ode
D.
sonnet
E.
elegy

Answer 1

sonnet

Step-by-step explanation:

this poem has 14 lines and a sonnet poem consists of 14 lines as well.

Answer 2

D. sonnet

Step-by-step explanation:

A sonnet is a type of lyric poem that has 14 lines. In particular, this poem is a Shakespearean sonnet; it is made up of three quatrains, each with its own rhyme scheme, and followed by a rhyming couplet.

Other answers:

A. haiku

A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry made of short, unrhymed lines that evoke natural imagery. They come in a variety of different formats of short verses, though the most common is a three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.

B. ballad

A ballad is a type of narrative poetry that has musical, songlike qualities and is usually made up of quatrains. The second and fourth line of each quatrain rhyme.

C. ode

Odes are written using lofty or uplifting language, have a formal informal tone, and often use apostrophe.

(Not this kind of apostrophe: ' In poetry, it is a figure of speech where an absent person, an inanimate object, or an abstract concept is directly addressed.)

E. elegy

Elegies have a sad tone and are usually written to express sorrow over someone’s death. The traditional elegy has three parts:

1. The poem expresses sorrow over someone's death.
2. The poem goes on to honor and praise the dead.
3. The poem offers consolation or comfort.

I hope this helps!