How many lines are in Spenserian stanza ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which one of the following rhyme scheme is the rhyme scheme Spenserian stanza ?

   A. ab cb bc cd e
   B. abba bccb d
   C. ab bc cd de f
   D. ab ab bc bc c

2. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as ?

   A. Spenserian Stanza
   B. Ballad
   C. Ottava Rima
   D. Rhyme Royal

3. The first stanza of Countee Cullen’s “A Brown Girl Dead” reads: “With two white roses on her breasts,/White candles at head and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet.” Which of the following statements accurately characterizes these lines ?

   A. These lines evoke Christian imagery to emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.
   B. These lines evoke Christian imagery to suggest that death erases racial divisions.
   C. These lines present the problem of racial prejudice in an ironic mode.
   D. Both A and B

4. The first stanza of John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” begins with what topic(s) ?

   A. A brief summary of “Paradise Lost”
   B. A detailed description of Satan
   C. A detailed description of Milton himself
   D. A and B

5. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ?

   A. Rime royal
   B. Ottava rima
   C. Terza rima
   D. Spenserian Stanza

6. The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?

   A. Panic
   B. Pain
   C. Calmness
   D. content

7. The first stanza of the poem provides an idea that it is______________?

   A. a revenge story
   B. not a happy story
   C. a metaphysical poem
   D. a deterministic poem

8. What do you mean by Stanza ?

   A. a division of drama
   B. a division of novel
   C. a division of story
   D. a subdivision of a poem

9. The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

   A. Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize
   the distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.
   B. These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.
   C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.
   D. All of the above

10. Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a whole ?

    A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers’ deaths on the battlefield.
    B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain’s imperial power.
    C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.
    D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.