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Quiz — Storgy

IN A GARDEN.

by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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

Q01of 10

What is the dominant structural pattern repeated in each stanza of 'In a Garden'?

Q02of 10

What rhyme scheme does Swinburne use in each stanza of the poem?

Q03of 10

In the third stanza, the line 'Answering light with love and night with noon' is best understood as an example of which poetic technique?

Q04of 10

What happens to the baby in the final stanza of the poem?

Q05of 10

Throughout the poem, the speaker repeatedly implies that the baby perceives something 'fairer' or 'better' than the natural wonders shown to it. What does this suggest about the poem's central theme?

Q06of 10

In the stanza about the sea, the baby's reaction differs noticeably from its responses to flowers, birds, and the moon. How does the baby respond to the sound of the sea?

Q07of 10

The line 'Calm in claim of all things fair that are' describes the baby's open hand reaching toward a star. What tone does this image convey?

Q08of 10

The poem's closing image of 'good day shall smile away good night' functions primarily as what kind of literary device?

Q09of 10

Which word best describes the overall tone the speaker maintains toward the baby throughout the poem?

Q10of 10

The bells in the sixth stanza appear to signal what concrete event in the poem's narrative?

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