The Poetry Quiz

Are you a poetry master? Dare to take the ultimate poetry challenge? Don't be so shy — Our Fun Poetry Quiz presents questions and answers on old and modern poetry to help test and enrich your knowledge.

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kubangu_p
It's awesome and I have learnt alot
LikeReply3 days ago
jessica.81529
Wow I may like poetry and try to write it but I know nothing about it. LOL. It was fun and I learned some new things
LikeReply15 days ago
patriciah.02908
learned a lot of things today
LikeReply19 days ago
#iwriteitall
Woohoo
LikeReply1 month ago
Janebjordan35
I learn a lot.
LikeReply2 months ago
Janebjordan35
I like this. I learn while answering.
LikeReply 22 months ago
luisestable1
A good exercise poetry matters
LikeReply 12 months ago
Vidyamenon.g
Enjoyed doing it
LikeReply 12 months ago
UJ
I took the quiz about 10 times until I finally got them all correct.
LikeReply 22 months ago
stoneybelcher67
I think it's awesome I love a good challenge good exercise for the brains
LikeReply 22 months ago
ilori_j
It's exciting
LikeReply 12 months ago
luisestable1
I like this type of poetry-exercise
LikeReply 12 months ago
luisestable1
Good mental work!
LikeReply2 months ago
dougb.19255
No Wordsworth. Pity. Give me lots of Wordsworth and I will blow the puzzle’s doors down.oh yeah and maybe Robert Browning. Team ahoy…Wayne Blair.
LikeReply 12 months ago
luisestable1
Good work! I got 8 out 10. I gave my mind good exercise.
LikeReply 22 months ago
jamesd.65848
Fun and interactive way to sharpen your pencils
LikeReply 23 months ago
bevgeorge
great exercise. thanks
LikeReply 13 months ago
leotis_h
Thank you all for testing my poetry background. It helps me to stay well rounded. Am thankful to find a site like this and to guides me to become a great poet one day.
LikeReply 14 months ago
Osagie
I think some of the questions will guide us technically
LikeReply 15 months ago
dougb.72572
Fun to give it a whirl.
LikeReply 25 months ago
alaina_d
This is not dumb. I think.
LikeReply 16 months ago
shafiqul_i
It's really interesting. However, I could not do well.
LikeReply 16 months ago
ahmedr.26434
The question are quite interesting and I really love it
LikeReply 36 months ago
Lord_Bones
Heavily-random trivia of retained participles...
LikeReply 17 months ago
msmarkonis
9/10 and I knew the Elizabeth Bishop one too! Damn!
LikeReply 17 months ago
Ronn
"The Cask of Amontillado" is indeed by Edgar Allen Poe, but it is a short story, NOT a poem.
LikeReply 27 months ago
Earlene209
I enjoyed the Poetry Quiz learning new things about poets I did not know.
LikeReply 37 months ago
Olajide1900
This is great
LikeReply 27 months ago
LiteralErudite
All fun
LikeReply 27 months ago
oteeyhoIro
Fun is the word.
LikeReply 28 months ago
Mesha
I have done this 3 times in a row. I find it very fun. I am also shocked about what I DO know.
LikeReply 18 months ago
author177
I didn't know some of these. Very fun
LikeReply 18 months ago
rgstexbd
Amagzing
LikeReply 18 months ago
Sabih
I am just exploring this website for two reasons, learning the art of writing sonnets and secondly to publish my freestyle poetry. The quiz seems to be focused on expanding my knowledge base about poets and poetry. more »
LikeReply 18 months ago
Wordsofadnan
Yeah , pretty fun.
LikeReply 29 months ago
areeka_n
This is the best website!! Amazing!
LikeReply 29 months ago
Israelpoems
Lovely
LikeReply 19 months ago
Aleroid
It’s fun
LikeReply 19 months ago
sharis_h
❤
LikeReply 210 months ago
rakeshm.46911
Fun-oetry!
LikeReply 210 months ago
- acronimous
  LOL
  LikeReply9 months ago
Catalystchurch9
Mind blogging ones
LikeReply 110 months ago
TEJIKOBI
Amagzing
LikeReply11 months ago
Kacsing
Loads of fun!!!
LikeReply 112 months ago
tahirunasara1
Amazing set of questions. Really challenging and I enjoyed myself.
LikeReply 21 year ago
leisirzero
i love poems too, altho is much less poetic world than before ,but still we need love
LikeReply 11 year ago
Dougla$Irishman
Teddi, now that is a unique name ! The masters of old used 16 to 24 lines to get their thoughts thru, I use 24 lines in my poems normally, sometimes 28 or 32 ! Checkout the poet laurates of old like .A Kilmer - The Tree, A Tennyson - The Bar and Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken ! Happy poeming ! more »
LikeReply1 year ago
1mrstpayne
I am not new to poetry, but I would love to meet others and enjoy their poems. Add me and thanks.
LikeReply1 year ago
jwarren3604
I really enjoyed the quiz and learned new info.
LikeReply 11 year ago
dik_c
Two were guesses...
LikeReply1 year ago
nazmianver
That was interesting!
LikeReply 11 year ago
Dougla$Irishman
Be ever mindful
Laugh and the world laughs with you
Weep and you weep alone
For this sad old earth must borrow its mirth
But has trouble enough of its own ! Selah
Ella Wilson
LikeReply 41 year ago
Tewabe
well come back , let that good old days passed. thanks Edward Ely. It was a great promotion and initiation to stick with poetry.
LikeReply1 year ago
Dougla$Irishman
Put your talents to God, be a teller of Good News !
Read the Word and be a doer of it, there is no matter occupation than to serve !
You have wonderful credentials, use then for the Most High and your life will take on a new dimension ! more »
LikeReply 11 year ago
Deybor
Nice literary Drill. This helps sharpen once knowledge and memory of the basics of Literature-In-English.
LikeReply 31 year ago
Dougla$Irishman
Your name Shane is very unique, it means God is gracious !
And He will bless His children during a lifetime of service. How good can it get ?
LikeReply 11 year ago
Dougla$Irishman
Thomas, learning God's Word will provide meaning to your life !
Study to show thy self a workman that needs not to be ashamed.
Bravo for your translating. keep me posted.
LikeReply 31 year ago
rakeshmishrairs
Interesting update to your stashed away childhood memories!
LikeReply1 year ago
Dougla$Irishman
Any Bible scholars out there ?
For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face ;now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1 Cor 13: 12.
One of greatest poets ever was Alfred Lord Tennyson and he wrote " The Bar "
Check it out - an era of poetry not seen today or ever ! more »
LikeReply 11 year ago
- ThomasMcElwain
  Don't know if I am actually a Bible scholar, but I did translate the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into rhymed English verse once upon a time. (Aramaic portions I had to depend mostly on other translations.) I am now on the last stretch of doing the same thing in an Iroquoian dialect. more »
  LikeReply 21 year ago
- @shaneb-z
  wow that's amazing! You've got a good grasp on languages, and an appreciation for scholarship, as well as an understanding to know the difference.
  LikeReply 11 year ago
- bernadette_m
  That's incredible! I just hope you didn't alter the message in it. Smile.
  LikeReply1 year ago
- ThomasMcElwain
  Thanks for that!
  LikeReply1 year ago
- ThomasMcElwain
  While putting it into rhymed verse did not distort the text nearly as much as might be predicted, and the result is certainly closer to the Hebrew and Greek texts than many modern versions using "dynamic" translation methods, a translation by a single person is inevitably going to show individual bias. I am not immune to that. But I believe that God does protect His Word. more »
  LikeReply 21 year ago
s.rimizak
That was cool, though my knowledge of Enlish poetry is rather limited..
LikeReply1 year ago
onyemenam_e
I literally forgot everything,but the test was very helpful
LikeReply 11 year ago
fredrick_s
I remembered some things from a while back. I missed answered one so I really missed 1.
LikeReply1 year ago
jerrywlawrence2666
I Had 2 Much Fun, This Time. (It Can B Gotten Through).
LikeReply1 year ago
jerrywlawrence2666
It Was Fun.
LikeReply 11 year ago
33sykes33
I forgot everything.
LikeReply1 year ago
roger_g
Teases the mind in to working
LikeReply1 year ago
mw111175
I KNEW MORE THAN I EXPECTED TO.
LikeReply 11 year ago
Florisa
refreshing poetry knowledge, great!
LikeReply 21 year ago
Kossyifediata
8/10! This is brainstorming.
A very nice one.
LikeReply 11 year ago
alinsky101
Multiple choice always makes these a bit easier. I didn't know that Langston Hughes wrote Dreams but worked it out by a process of elimination. But I will go and read it now so mission accomplished I'd say! more »
LikeReply1 year ago
kaleidoscopickat
10/10 since I'm a college English teacher!
LikeReply 31 year ago
Dougla$Irishman
These quizzes are interesting but give me a break, who is a poet expert ?
Most of the names I have never heard of ! Just lucky guessing which means nothing. !
LikeReply 11 year ago
ocmack
Enjoyable. An enjoyable method to teach some of the complexities of poetry and familiarize with some of the poets of the past.
LikeReply 41 year ago
Ghat1980
9/10 on two of the quizzes I’m a beast making poetry my feast so who wants to say I cheat? Done in 2min20sec as Edgar raven pec i erect tall from my success!!!
LikeReply 31 year ago
Texaspoetish67
This is a good exercise for showing that you don’t have to know much about poetry to write poetry.
LikeReply 21 year ago
- acronimous
  LOL :-)
  LikeReply 11 year ago
Johnex
I got 4/10 , it wasn't that easy because not every poem there I have access, I just did more of guessing it
LikeReply 11 year ago
Hya
A good measure of knowledge of poets and poetry.
LikeReply 21 year ago
ifumiehigiator
I got six out of ten. Still learning.
LikeReply 11 year ago
Madeyin'sPetry
Cooooooool
LikeReply 11 year ago
UJ
I got 10/10 but I cheated. I had to look up 4 of them because I had no idea. Also another 4 because I was not 100% sure {but I was right on my guess}. So I really only 100% knew 2 {the first 2}.
LikeReply 41 year ago
- Madeyin'sPetry
  teach me some poet legend please
  LikeReply 11 year ago
miral
This is amazing but I am not too much to poetry
This is my first time of writing something
LikeReply 31 year ago
tiffyshell88
10/10 but it took me almost 5 minutes. Lots of thinking went into this one.
LikeReply 51 year ago
- Skies
  let's be cool
  LikeReply 11 year ago
Adora
So mind challenging
LikeReply 41 year ago
ronm.95906
Good. The old poetry.com ended up not letting me submit my work. This one does.
LikeReply 31 year ago
- Soulwriter
  Glad to have you with us
  LikeReply 31 year ago
frankie1129a
A lot of these questions have nothing to do on how we connect with our poetry
LikeReply 31 year ago
Lunasolaris
10/10.. And i love William Blake..
LikeReply 21 year ago
jackversion9
Bloody hell, this was challenging
LikeReply 41 year ago
- Elrose_
  i got 3 out of 10, calm down :v
  LikeReply 21 year ago
L.Piddlepuck
6 out of 10 but accidentally hit wrong on two, so, 8 out of 10 not bad.
LikeReply 21 year ago
- Soulwriter
  Not bad at all ;)
  LikeReply 31 year ago
Gomes
Very interesting...
LikeReply 21 year ago
ErickGarcia0415
Fun and informative.
LikeReply 32 years ago
jordaliza_g
It is tooooo hard
LikeReply 32 years ago
- Soulwriter
  haha I love a good challenge ;)
  LikeReply 21 year ago
erica_s
WOW!!!
LikeReply 32 years ago
joseluis_v
Marvelous way yo increase knowledge
LikeReply 32 years ago
benbulu
With a score of 70% (7 out of 10), I did fairly well; but I still have to learn a lot about poetry and poets.
LikeReply 32 years ago
p_batteate
Great idea and fun.
LikeReply 42 years ago
smhargis26
It is suddenly apparent that I know very little about the history of the art of poetry. study now I shall..
LikeReply 42 years ago
gigicrawford
I hold fast to my dreams indeed. It's been a while since writing a poem. 1 of my favorite subjects in high school was "Creative Writing". The test was fun and better than school test for sure. Let's you know to read more & more for the art of poetry ! more »
LikeReply 32 years ago
merdibakembo2
I love this, it's really a good knowledge testing ❤️
LikeReply 42 years ago
heavenscrown17
I love this getting to master other poems
LikeReply 42 years ago
CrystalClover7
Made me realize I need to read more.
LikeReply 52 years ago
- Msbbosox
  agree wholeheartedly!
  LikeReply 12 years ago
Eibhlinn2020
Fun...
LikeReply 32 years ago
clowney04
It was fun. I haven't had those kinds of questions since high school
LikeReply 42 years ago
sue_m
Crazy addictive!
LikeReply 52 years ago
Brown_Sketchys
I really loved it. Full of fun.
Good initiative
LikeReply 52 years ago
MegaMoguls
Wow! You can tell I graduated 20 years ago!
LikeReply 52 years ago
Butterfly3
This is addictive!
LikeReply 52 years ago
Butterfly3
It was definitely fun & a challenge! :)
LikeReply 32 years ago
Brandyswells67
I enjoyed it
LikeReply 32 years ago
shamanistique
It's been a while since I tapped into the poetic side of life.
LikeReply 32 years ago