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  The New Oxford Book of American Verse

Name the quoted poet: "I wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 74 times
Correct: 33 times (30.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 41 times (38.0%)
Skipped: 34 times (31.5%)
  From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:

Name the quoted poet:

Back out of all this now too much for us,
Back in a time made simple by the loss
Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off
Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,
There is a house that is no more a house
Upon a farm that is no more a farm
And in a town that is no more a town. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 45 times
Correct: 19 times (27.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 26 times (38.2%)
Skipped: 23 times (33.8%)
  From The New Oxford Book of American Verse edited by Richard Ellmann:

Name the quoted poet:

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 31 times
Correct: 20 times (48.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 11 times (26.8%)
Skipped: 10 times (24.4%)
  From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:

Name the quoted poet:

Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 31 times
Correct: 18 times (40.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 13 times (29.5%)
Skipped: 13 times (29.5%)

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