Match each excerpt to its poetic style.

enjambment
iambic pentameter
blank verse

1. "the spirit of poetry" by henry wadsworth longfellow

there is a quiet spirit in these woods,
that dwells where'er the gentle south-wind blows;
where, underneath the white-thorn, in the glade,
the wild flowers bloom, or, kissing the soft air,
the leaves above their sunny palms outspread.

2. "a dream" by edgar allan poe

ah! what is not a dream by day
to him whose eyes are cast
on things around him with a ray
turned back upon the past?

3. "a shadow" by henry wadsworth longfellow

i said unto myself, if i were dead,
what would befall these children? what would be
their fate, who now are looking up to me
for and furtherance? their lives, i said,

1. "The Spirit of Poetry" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a quiet spirit in these woods,

That dwells where'er the gentle south-wind blows;

Where, underneath the white-thorn, in the glade,

The wild flowers bloom, or, kissing the soft air,

The leaves above their sunny palms outspread.

The above lines are the example of Blank verse. Blank verse is the unrhymed iambic pentameter.

2. "A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

Ah! what is not a dream by day

To him whose eyes are cast

On things around him with a ray

Turned back upon the past?

The above lines are the example of Enjambment. Enjambment is a line or phrase which run over from one sentence to another without any final punctuation.

3. "A Shadow" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I said unto myself, if I were dead,

What would befall these children? What would be

Their fate, who now are looking up to me

For help and furtherance? Their lives, I said,

The above lines are the example of iambic pentameter. An iambic pentameter is a form of a metrical line in which each line contains five unstressed syllables followed by five stressed syllables. They are usually arranged in an alternating pattern.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.