| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | PARTS OF A POEM $400: An iamb is one of these basic units of verse with an anatomical name a foot |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | PARTS OF A POEM $800: This word for a group of rhyming lines in a poem comes from Italian stanza |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | PARTS OF A POEM $1200: This word for a group of 4 lines of verse is from French for "four" a quatrain |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | PARTS OF A POEM $2000: Hail! This word for a pause in the middle of a line of poetry caesura |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | PARTS OF A POEM $4,000 (Daily Double): Also a punctuation mark, it's an address to a personification of something; "Death, be not proud" is an example an apostrophe |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | NAME THE POEM $800: "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" "The Road Not Taken" |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | NAME THE POEM $1200: "Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, and bit the babies in the cradles" "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | NAME THE POEM $2,990 (Daily Double): "At length did cross an albatross, through the fog it came" "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | NAME THAT POEM $400: Dylan Thomas:
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light" "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | NAME THAT POEM $800: Whitman:
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself" "Song of Myself" |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | NAME THAT POEM $1600: Andrew Marvell:
"Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime" "To His Coy Mistress" |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | NAME THAT POEM $2,000 (Daily Double): T.S. Eliot:
"Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | NAME THAT POEM $2000: Keats:
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases" "Endymion" |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | POEM & POET $400: "Poems are made by fools like me" "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | POEM & POET $800: "Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell,
Rode the six hundred" Tennyson, "Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | POEM & POET $1200: "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling" "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | POEM & POET $1600: "'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'" "Ozymandias" by Shelley |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | POEM & POET $2000: "The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits" "Dover Beach" by Arnold |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | POEM $200: Man in the title of the 1863 poem that says, "One, if by land, and two, if by sea" Paul Revere |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | POEM $400: An 1872 ditty:
"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things'" "The Walrus and the Carpenter" |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | POEM $800: A 1667 work:
"Of man's first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree" "Paradise Lost" |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | POEM $1000: 1923 poem that reads:
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | POEM $2,000 (Daily Double): "Water, water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink" says this 1798 poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | POEM-POURRI $200: Wallace Stevens' "Farewell to" this state says, "Key West sank downward under massive clouds" Florida |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | POEM-POURRI $400: Sara Teasdale wrote about these plants' "wet, sleepy fragrance"; Monet would understand Water lilies |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | POEM-POURRI $600: In Tennyson's poem about "The Lady of" this place, he rhymes it with "Camelot" & "Lancelot" Shalott |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | POEM-POURRI $800: This Edwin Arlington Robinson poem about a wealthy suicide was set to music by Simon & Garfunkel "Richard Cory" |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | POEM-POURRI $1000: In the following, Johnny Gilbert portrays Marlowe's "Passionate" one of these men "to His Love":
Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove, / That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields." shepherd |
