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DEAD MAN'S MORRICE.

by Alfred Noyes.

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

What is the formal role of the italicized lines that appear at the end of each stanza?

Q02of 10

The poem is structured in six stanzas of eight lines each, alternating longer and shorter lines. What is the dominant effect of the shorter indented lines?

Q03of 10

Who or what is the 'crowder' introduced in the opening stanza?

Q04of 10

In stanzas two and three, the ghosts of lovers are described as 'groping for those dim paths.' What do these ghosts primarily represent thematically?

Q05of 10

The phrase 'of the may they knew, / No wraiths remain' in stanza three uses 'may' in which sense?

Q06of 10

What is the speaker's stated intention after death, as expressed in stanza five?

Q07of 10

The title 'Dead Man's Morrice' links the poem to which cultural tradition?

Q08of 10

Which literary technique is most consistently employed in the lines 'Hands link with hands, eyes drown in eyes anew, / Lips meet again'?

Q09of 10

The poem's tone shifts across its six stanzas. Which sequence best describes that tonal progression?

Q10of 10

The setting of 'that old wood, where ghosts of lovers walk' in stanza two most directly alludes to which broader literary tradition?

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