QUIZ — RHYMES

[Anonymouṡ No.21488155]

[Anonymouṡ No.21488156]

QUIZ — RHYMES


What's the difference between good, upstanding poetry and modern rubbish? G.U.P. rhymes, obviously. One hundred works to identify from their rhymes alone. (Half-rhymes included. Occasionally I've had to make a judgement call on whether a line is unrhymed or very tenuously half-rhymed.) Some light and/or not-very-good pieces. One author appears four times, eight thrice, nine twice. It's a more-than-usually Anglophone collection, for obvious reasons.

The authors:

W. H. Auden, Hillaire Belloc, Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, S. T. Coleridge, e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ernst Dowson, John Dryden, Edward Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, W. S. Gilbert, Robert Graves, Thomas Gray, Thom Gunn, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Felicia Hemans, William Ernest Henley, Robert Herrick, Geoffrey Hill, G. M. Hopkins, A. E. Houseman, Julia Ward Howe, Ted Hughes, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Walter Savage Landor, Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, Edward Lear, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Macaulay, Walter de la Mare, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, John Masefield, William McGonagall, Dixon Lanier Merritt, A. A. Milne, John Milton, Ogdon Nash, Henry Newbolt, Alfred Noyes, Wilfred Owen, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pope, Ezra Pound, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, P. B. Shelley, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Wallace Stevens, Jonathan Swift, A. C. Swinburne, Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth, Thomas Wyatt, W. B. Yeats


Hints on request.

[Anonymouṡ No.21488160]

1.
land / stone / sand / frown / command / read / things / fed / appear / kings / despair / decay / bare / away


2.
escaped / scooped / groined / groaned / bestirred / stared / eyes / bless / hall / Hell

[First ten lines only.]


3.
master / intent / disaster
fluster / spent / master
faster / meant / disaster
last or / went / master
vaster / continent / disaster
gesture / evident / master / disaster


4.
cloud / hills / crowd / daffodiles / trees / breeze

[First stanza only.]


5.
waves / rain / train / caves
gowns / pursue / through / towns
send / sleep / keep / friend
may / disciplines / marines / pay
warm / clerk / work / form
pity / legs / eggs / city
vast / across / moss / fast


6.
work / life / pitchfork / off
soils / poison / bills / proportion

[First two stanzas only.]


7.
matter / games / hatter / names
daily / James / Bailey / names
sweeter / dames / Demeter / names

[First three stanzas only.]


8.
fold / gold / sea / Galilee

[First stanza only.]


9.
Lord / stored / sword
camps / damps / lamps
steel / deal / heel
retreat / seat / feet
sea / me / free

[One unrhymed line in each stanza.]


10.
me / immortality
away / civility
ring / sun
chill / tulle
ground / ground
day / eternity

[Alternate lines unrhymed.]

[Anonymouṡ No.21488167]

11.
gold / seen / been / hold / told / demesne / serene / bold / skies / ken / eyes / men / surmise / Darien


12.
me / see / strings / sings
song / belong / outside / guide
clamour / glamour / cast / past


13.
tent / breeze / relent / ease / pole / heavenward / soul / cord / bound / thought / round / taut / air / aware


14.
trees / seas / moor / door

[First stanza only. Two unrhymed lines.]


15.
forgetfulness / pass / alas / cruelness / readiness / case / apace / fearfulness / disdain / hinderance / ignorance / pain / comfort / port


16.
saying / hill / still / playing / undo / kill / park / cuckoo / beds / shades / dark / undoing / reel


17.
unkind / nunnery / mind / fly
chase / field / embrace / shield
such / adore / much / more


18.
cabbage-white / flight / late / straight / I / fly / guess / hopelessness / swift / gift


19.
writ / wit / it

[Stanza 71 of 101. One unrhymed line.]


20.
me / pole / be / soul
circumstance / aloud / chance / unbowed
tears / shade / years / unafraid
gate / scroll / fate / soul

[Anonymous No.21488168]

>>21488155
the bigger the nigger, the bigger the jigger
the bigger the nigger, the bigger the rigor
the bigger the nigger, the bigger the trigger
the bigger the nigger, the bigger the digger

[Anonymouṡ No.21488173]

21.
bright / night / eye / symmetry
skies / eyes / aspire / fire
art / heart / beat / feet
chain / brain / grasp / clasp
spears / tears / see / thee
bright / night / eye / symmetry


22.
love / prove / fields / yields
rocks / flocks / falls / Madrigals
roses / posies / kirtle / myrtle
wool / pull / cold / gold
buds / studs / move / love
sing / morning / move / love


23.
soon / powers / ours / boon / moon / hours / flowers / tune / be / outworn / lea / forlorn / sea / horn


24.
day / lea / way / me
sight / holds / flight / folds
tower / complain / bower / reign
shade / heap / laid / sleep


25.
dreary / weary / lore / napping / tapping / rapping / door / door / more

[First stanza only.]


26.
June / tune
I / dry
sun / run
awhile / mile

[Alternate lines unrhymed.]


27.
me / field / be / concealed / aware / roam / air / home / away / less / given / day / gentleness / heaven


28.
gate / late / odds / gods

[Stanza 27 of 70. Four unrhymed lines.]


29.
I / sky / streets / retreats / hotels / oyster-shells / argument / intent / is it / visit

[First stanza only. Two unrhymed lines.]


30.
know / though / here / snow
queer / near / lake / year
shake / mistake / sweep / flake
deep / keep / sleep / sleep

[Anonymous No.21488174]

>>21488155
Maiden,
No prospect of hardship comes to me new or unexpected
I anticipated it all and have rehearsed in the privacy of my mind
You make these quizzes today—I have always quizzed myself and prepared my human self for human possibilities

[Anonymouṡ No.21488176]

31.
boat / honey / money / note / above / guitar / love / are / are / are / are

[First stanza only. First line unrhymed.]


32.
sky / by / shaking / breaking
tide / denied / flying / crying
life / knife / rover / over


33.
away / land / hand / stay / day / plann'd / understand / pray / while / grieve / leave / had / smile / sad


34.
ever / never / keep / sleep / breathing / wreathing / earth / dirth / days / ways / all / pall

[First twelve lines only.]


35.
deck / fled / wreck / dead

[First stanza only.]


36.
spent / wide / hide / bent / present / chide / denied / prevent / need / best / state / speed / rest / wait


37.
lies / made / eyes / fade / change / strange / knell / bell

[One unrhymed line.]


38.
soul / all
heard / storm / bird / warm
sea / me

[Alternate lines in 1st & 3rd stanzas unrhymed.]


39.
awake / headache / anxiety / use / choose / impropriety
fire / conspire / plunder / goes / toes / under
tickles / pickles / pricking / cross / toss / ticking
creep / heap / tangle / resigns / declines / angle

[First four stanzas only.]


40.
again / train / rest / feast / paid / shade

[Last six lines only.]

[Anonymouṡ No.21488179]

41.
fair / by / majesty / wear / bare / lie / sky / air / steep / hill / deep / will / asleep / still


42.
dry / sky / stones / swans
count / mount / rings / wings
sore / shore / head / tread
cold / old / will / still
beautiful / pool / day / away

[Two unrhymed lines in each stanza.]


43.
worm / storm
joy / destroy

[Alternate lines unrhymed.]


44.
may / a-flying / to-day / dying
sun / a-getting / run / setting
first / warmer / worst / former
time / marry / prime / tarry


45.
falls / walls / story / shakes / lakes / glory / flying / dying
hear / clear / going / far / scar / blowing / replying / dying
die / sky / river / roll / soul / ever / flying / dying


46.
pride / aside / nail / male
man / can / trail / male
Choctaws / squaws / pale / male
say / away / tale / male

[First four stanzas only.]


47.
behold / hang / cold / sang / day / west / away / rest / fire / lie / expire / by / strong / long


48.
leaf / said / spread / grief
again / too / new / grain
thresh / May / say / afresh


49.
alone / own / say / today / shine / mine / power / hour


50.
night / day / light
right / they / night
bright / bay / light
flight / way / night
sight / gay / light
height / pray / night / light

[Anonymouṡ No.21488183]

51.
skies / face / place / tries / eyes / case / grace / descries / me / wit / be / yet / possess / ungratefulness


52.
pelican / belican / beak / week / hell he can


53.
wrong / understood / along / waiting / be / skating / wood / forgot / course / spot / horse / tree
away / may / cry / shone / green / seen / sky / on

[One unrhymed line.]


54.
less in / dressing / issues / tissues / void / employed / survey / lay / clear / here

[First ten lines only.]


55.
powers / eye / flowers / die / forth / men / earth / again
daffodil / hears / chill / year's / countenance / small / continuance / perpetual
kind / be / blind / she / death / sure / saith / endure


56.
three / me
kin / din
he / he
still / will

[First four stanzas only. Alternate lines unrhymed.]


57.
afternoon / June
came / name
dry / sky
mistier / Gloucestershire

[Alternate lines unrhymed.]


58.
plain / shield / remain / field / wield / bit / yield / sit / fit

[First stanza only.]


59.
Tay / say / away / 1879 / time
night / might / down / frown / say / Tay

[First two stanzas only.]


60.
left / coat / bereft / devote / allowed / proud / eye / die / graves / slaves
presence / lyre / quiescence / aspire / untrod / God / pain / again / own / throne

[Six unrhymed lines in each stanza.]

[Anonymouṡ No.21488187]

61.
ilk / milk


62.
love / give / night / height
where / here / firm / squirm
which / touch / fates / roots
weep / sleep / cry / grow

[First four stanzas only.]


63.
hag / rag / Abishag
Hollywood / good / likelihood
fate / late / state
own / throne / crone
knew / true / you
starred / disregard / hard
dignified / side / provide


64.
now / bough / ride / Eastertide
ten / again / score / more
bloom / room / go / snow


65.
away / perfidy
begun / afternoon
shone / gone
keel / beautiful

[Alternate lines unrhymed.]


66.
God / foil / oil / rod / trod / toil / soil / shod / spent / things / went / springs / bent / wings


67.
sea / vanity / she
pyres / fires / lyres
meant / opulent / indifferent

[First three stanzas only.]


68.
quiet / seems / riot / dreams / growing / sowing / mowing / streams
laughter / weep / hereafter / reap / hours / flowers / powers / sleep

[First two stanzas only.]


69.
seem / ice-cream
come / dumb / beam / ice-cream

[Six unrhymed lines in the first stanza; four in the second.]


70.
time / art / sublime / start
born / date / acorn / bait
Τροιη / ear / lee-way / year

[First three stanzas only.]

[Anonymouṡ No.21488192]

71.
was / cold / grass / fold / told / breath / old / death / saith

[First stanza only.]


72.
day / temperate / May / date / shines / dimm'd / declines / untrimm'd / fade / owest / shade / growest / see / thee


73.
time / crime / way / day / side / tide / would / flood / refuse / Jews

[First ten lines only.]


74.
night / skies / bright / eyes / light / denies
less / grace / tress / face / express / place
brow / eloquent / glow / spent / below / innocent


75.
star / root / are / foot / singing / stinging / find / wind / mind

[First stanza only.]


76.
street / feet / squares / bears / eat / street / lairs / bears / squares
mine / line / pretend / friend / cares / squares / talk / walk / bears / squares


77.
being / dead / fleeing
red / thou / bed
low / until / blow
fill / air / hill
everywhere / hear

[First five stanzas only.]


78.
still / caressed / bill / breast / push / thighs / rush / lies / there / tower / up / air / power / drop


79.
skill / ill / offence / sense / this / amiss / expose / prose

[First eight lines only.]


80.
hands / lands / stands
crawls / walls / falls

[Anonymouṡ No.21488198]

81.
kills / blows / hills / those
content / plain / went /again


82.
return / hosts / sojourn / ghosts / terrace-urn / pentecosts / burn / quests / hood / again / servitude / shrine / wood / green


83.
mine / shed / wine / passion / head / fashion
beat / lay / sweet / passion / gray / fashion
wind / throng / mind / passion / long / fashion
wine / expire / thine / passion / desire / fashion


84.
done / won / exulting / daring / red / dead
bells / trills / crowding / turning / head / dead
still / will / done / won / tread / dead

[Two unrhymed lines in each stanza.]


85.
follows / birds / swallows / growth / both / violence / sense / words
come / boys / hum / thigh / impersonality / dust / robust / noise

[First two stanzas only.]


86.
asleep / hours / low / sleep / flowers / snow / snow


87.
star / me / bar / sea
asleep / foam / deep / home
bell / dark / farewell / embark
place / far / face / bar


88.
red / dead / bed
gray / gay / day
eye / sky / by
ring / thing / swing

[First four stanzas only. Alternate lines unrhymed.]


89.
Khan / decree / ran / man / sea / ground / round / rills / tree / hills / greenery

[First stanza only.]


90.
strife / art / life / depart

[Anonymouṡ No.21488206]

91.
fate / above / hate / love
Cross / poor / loss / before
fight / crowds / delight / clouds
mind / breath / behind / death


92.
sun / ripen / clot / knot / sweet / it / for / hunger / jam-pots / boots

[First ten lines only.]


93.
end / dead / friend / said
five / day / alive / they
slope / trees / hope / knees

[First three stanzas only.]


94.
virtue / touch / hurt you / much / minute / run / in it / son

[Last stanza only.]


95.
King / string / tied / inside / fame / came / fees / disease

[First eight lines only.]


96.
green / seen
hills / mills
gold / desire / unfold / fire
hand / land

[Two unrhymed lines in the first, second and fourth stanzas.]


97.
sun / strut / nut / lion
coil / or / straw / wall
arrives / mesmerized / enraged / eyes
boredom / fire / ear / him
cell / freedom / heel / come


98.
door / floor / head / said / sill / still / then / men / hall / call / cry / sky / head / said / spake / awake / stone / gone

[Alternate lines unrhymed.]


99.
toves / wabe / borogroves / outgrabe

[First stanza only.]


100.
sun / rages / done / wages / must / dust
great / stroke / eat / oak / must / dust
flash / stone / rash / moan / must / dust
harm / charm / forbear / near / have / grave

[Anonymouṡ No.21488241]

>>21488174
Gentle comes the test of erudition that has been anticipated.

[Anonymous No.21488506]

>>21488160
1 is Ozymandias
>>21488173
25 is the Raven

Not a big poetry reader tbdesu

[Anonymouṡ No.21488713]

>>21488506
>1 is Ozymandias
>25 is the Raven

Correct.

[Anonymouṡ No.21488742]

>>21488506

>1 is Ozymandias
Correct.

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”


>25 is the Raven
Correct.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door —
Only this and nothing more.”

[Anonymous No.21488774]

>>21488156
1: Ozymandias by Shelley
4: Daffodils by Wordsworth
9: Battle Hymn of the Republic
11: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by Keats
19: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, translated by FitzGerald
20: Invictus
21: The Tyger by William Blake
25: The Raven by Poe
30: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
47: Sonnet 73 by Shakespeare (as featured in Stoner)
59: The Tay Bridge Disaster by McGonagall
72: Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare
89: Kubla Khan by Coleridge
96: "And did those feet in ancient time" by William Blake
99: Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

[Anonymouṡ No.21489030]

>>21488774
Yes, all correct. 1 & 25 were already known but the rest are yours. (If anyone's wondering, 9 is by Julia Ward Howe & 20 by William Ernest Henley.)

Too many to quote them all but some people might not be familiar with #59, and they should be:

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

Marvellous.

[Anonymouṡ No.21489046]

>>21488774
Yes, all correct. 1 & 25 were already known but the rest are yours. (If anyone's wondering, 9 is by Julia Ward Howe & 20 by William Ernest Henley.)

Too many to quote them all but some people might not be familiar with #59, and they should be:


Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

‘Twas about seven o’clock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clouds seem’d to frown,
And the Demon of the air seem’d to say —
“I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”


Marvellous.

[Anonymouṡ No.21489988]

Bedtime bump.