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For my "Content Area Reading" class I have to make a magic square exercise for my content. (My "content," by the way, is English, not water like the biology books would have you believe.) I've decided to do one based around forms of poetry. Forms of poetry that are not the haiku or the limerick. I'm thinking 11th grade target audience. I decided to explain "octave" and "sestet" but leave in "couplet" and "quatrain." Just assume that this isn't the first day of the Poetry Unit.

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Directions
Select the best answer for each of the poetry terms from the numbered definitions. Put the number in the proper space in the magic square box. If the total of the numbers are the same both across and down, you found the magic number!

Terms A. Spenserian stanza B. terza rima C. rhyme royal D. heroic couplets E. Italian sonnet F. English sonnet G. ballad stanza H. free verse I. blank verse

Definitions Unrhymed lines written in iambic pentameter. A pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Tercets following the rhyme scheme ABA BCB CDC (and so on). Eight lines rhyming ABBA ABBA followed by six lines rhyming CDE CDE (or similar). Seven lines in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ABABBCC. Four lines rhyming ABCB. Nine lines with the rhyme scheme ABABBCBCC. The first eight lines are in iambic pentameter and the ninth line is an alexandrine. Rhymed or unrhymed lines that don’t have a set meter. Three quatrains that rhyme ABAB CDCD EFEF followed by a rhyming couplet (GG).

a	b	c
d	e	f
g	h	i
Magic Number = ___?