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1) Pencil Sharpener �by Veronica Kornberg
Tiny monster whirring in the dungeon�of small delights. Screwed to a wood post�at the bottom of the cellar stairs and force fed�by the hands of a child who cranked your tail.�Razor teeth. Belly crammed with sawdust. You�were my mascot for all things bookish,�arty and away. Your burnished sides glowed�as you growled in the half-light that leaked�through the basement window. Little metal beast.�I might have broken my neck a thousand times,�rushing to you on those steps—
For the pleasure of a finely honed point�on a Number 2 lead as it touched a fresh page.�For lines to unspool and thicken beneath�my fingers, my warm breath. My curly�words espaliered on the guidewires of ruled paper.�For cross-hatched strokes to shade the underside�of a peach. You taught me how to open a thing,�empty its innards into the rubbish bin,�then muscle open the storm door and exit�into the conjured scents of cut grass and diesel.
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B) Ode
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2) Moon-shadows by Adelaide Crapsey
Still as�On windless nights�The moon-cast shadows are,�So still will be my heart when I�Am dead.
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A) Haiku
B) Limerick
C) Cinquain
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C) Cinquain
3) If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is by William Shakespeare
If there be nothing new, but that which is�Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,�Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss�The second burthen of a former child!�O, that record could with a backward look,�Even of five hundred courses of the sun,�Show me your image in some antique book,�Since mind at first in character was done!�That I might see what the old world could say�To this composed wonder of your frame;�Whether we are mended, or whe'r better they,�Or whether revolution be the same.�O! sure I am, the wits of former days�To subjects worse have given admiring praise.
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3) If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is by William Shakespeare
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3) If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is by William Shakespeare
A) Ballad
B) Sonnet
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B) Sonnet
4) Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee
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B) Sonnet
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A) Ballad
5) A World of Dew by Kobayashi Issa
A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle.
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C) Haiku
6) Anonymous
A painter, who lived in Great Britain,
Interrupted two girls with their knittin’
He said, with a sigh,
“That park bench-well I
Just painted it, right where you’re sittin.”
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B) Limerick
7) Anonymous 2
Rain�Light, soft�Hanging, drifting, suspended�Making the world ghostly�Mist
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C) Cinquain
8) Ice Cream by Unknown
Ice cream
Cookies & Cream
English Toffee
Chocolate Chip
Rocky Road
Every flavor
Almond Fudge
Mmmmmmm
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C) Ode
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A) Acrostic
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