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Quiz about Poetry Last Lines
Quiz about Poetry Last Lines

Poetry Last Lines Trivia Quiz


I'm going to give the last lines of some well known poems - all you have to do is say who wrote the poem - it's easier than it sounds! Hope you enjoy it.

A multiple-choice quiz by Vicki19. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Vicki19
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
34,193
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
20
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
11 / 20
Plays
1986
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Question 1 of 20
1. 'And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted - nevermore!' Hint


Question 2 of 20
2. 'If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.' Hint


Question 3 of 20
3. 'The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.' Hint


Question 4 of 20
4. 'Stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?' Hint


Question 5 of 20
5. 'I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.' Hint


Question 6 of 20
6. 'They danced by the light of the moon.' Hint


Question 7 of 20
7. 'So long as men can breathe or eyes can see So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.' Hint


Question 8 of 20
8. 'All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.' Hint


Question 9 of 20
9. 'What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?' Hint


Question 10 of 20
10. 'Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.' Hint


Question 11 of 20
11. 'I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.' Hint


Question 12 of 20
12. 'Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music - do I wake or sleep?' Hint


Question 13 of 20
13. 'And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.' Hint


Question 14 of 20
14. 'Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!' Hint


Question 15 of 20
15. 'Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.' Hint


Question 16 of 20
16. 'I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.' Hint


Question 17 of 20
17. 'Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?' Hint


Question 18 of 20
18. 'For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) Hint


Question 19 of 20
19. 'I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.' Hint


Question 20 of 20
20. This should be an easy one for the last question: 'I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.' Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. 'And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted - nevermore!'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

They are of course the last lines of Poe's 'The Raven'.
2. 'If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.'

Answer: William Shakespeare

These are the last two lines of 'Sonnet 116', the one that begins 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments'
3. 'The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.'

Answer: W B Yeats

The last lines of 'The Song of Wandering Aengus'.
4. 'Stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?'

Answer: Rupert Brooke

The famous last lines of the poem 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.
5. 'I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.'

Answer: Robert Frost

From the excellent 'The Road Not Taken' of course.
6. 'They danced by the light of the moon.'

Answer: Edward Lear

From 'The Owl and the Pussycat'.
7. 'So long as men can breathe or eyes can see So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.'

Answer: William Shakespeare

The last lines of 'Sonnet 18' which begins 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'
8. 'All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.'

Answer: Lewis Carroll

From 'Jabberwocky'.
9. 'What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?'

Answer: William Blake

From 'The Tyger'.
10. 'Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.'

Answer: Christina Rossetti

The last lines of 'Remember'.
11. 'I have spread my dreams under your {feet;} Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.'

Answer: W B Yeats

From one of my favourite poems 'He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven'.
12. 'Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music - do I wake or sleep?'

Answer: John Keats

The last two lines of 'Ode to a Nightingale'.
13. 'And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.'

Answer: William Wordsworth

From 'The Daffodils'.
14. 'Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

From 'If'.
15. 'Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.'

Answer: Lord Byron

From 'So we'll go no more A-roving'.
16. 'I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.'

Answer: Edna St Vincent Millay

From Millay's excellent 'Sonnet' which starts 'What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why'.
17. 'Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?'

Answer: Walt Whitman

From Whitman's 'What Am I After All'.
18. 'For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Answer: Dorothy Parker

From the short poem 'The Flaw in Paganism'.
19. 'I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.'

Answer: William Ernest Henley

From 'Invictus'.
20. This should be an easy one for the last question: 'I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.'

Answer: Stevie Smith

From, of course, 'Not Waving but Drowning.'
Source: Author Vicki19

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