Question
A poem with this unusual number of lines lists "The broken wall, the burning roof and tower / And Agamemnon dead." For 10 points:
[10h] Name the number of lines of that poem, which begins with the words "A sudden blow." Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Kraken" also has this many lines.
ANSWER: 15 lines [accept 15 line sonnets; prompt on "a sonnet with one extra line" or equivalents]
[10m] A 15-line poem evokes the "great wings" of one of these animals "beating still / above the staggering girl." Another poem by the same author described how "nine-and-fifty" of these animals "paddle in the cold" at Coole.
ANSWER: swans [accept "Leda and the Swan" or "The Wild Swans at Coole"; prompt on birds]
[10e] "The Wild Swans at Coole" is by this Irish poet of "Leda and the Swan," who described how "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" in "The Second Coming."
ANSWER: William Butler Yeats ("YATES")
<Literature - British Literature - Poetry>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 36 | 19.44 | 97% | 89% | 8% |