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What syllable pattern does a haiku follow?
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What poem form do Romeo and Juliet's first shared lines make?
Answer: A sonnet
Why: The play opens with one too: the Chorus speaks the 14-line prologue as a sonnet.
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What plant gave the haiku poet Bashō his pen name?
Answer: Banana
Why: His hut in Edo, where the plant grew, became known as the Bashō-an, the banana hut.
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Whose poems became the verses of the song 'Guantanamera'?
Answer: José Martí
Why: The lines come from Versos sencillos, 'Simple Verses', a book of poems Martí published in 1891.
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Where does the phrase 'carpe diem' come from?
Answer: Horace's Odes
Why: Carpe literally means 'pluck', as in picking ripe fruit, so Horace pictures the day as something to harvest.
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In Japanese, how many lines is a haiku traditionally written in?
Answer: One
Why: In Japanese a 'cutting word' such as ya marks the pause, while English versions often set the three phrases on three lines.
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What made a poem an elegy in ancient Greece?
Answer: Its meter
Why: Greek and Roman elegies covered war, politics and love as well as grief, all in couplets of a hexameter and a pentameter line.
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