Question

Which genre of poetry does this poem belong to?

Petrarchan sonnet

Shakespearean sonnet

ballad

limerick

Answer 1

Composed upon Westminster Bridge
by William Wordsworth

Earth has not any thing to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

Answer 2

@tylermcmullen23

Answer 3

Are there any that you can strike out?

Answer 4

what?

Answer 5

Well, Limerick, for example, is supposed to funny. I don't think that this poem is meant to be funny. So I'd say you can strike that out..

Answer 6

yea

Answer 7

ill give you a hint. it contains 14 lines so it has to be either _ or _

Answer 8

Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 9

it could be either sonnet, but to tell which it is, what is it about?

Answer 10

a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.

Answer 11

"Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets accredited to William Shakespeare which cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality"