Search online for a poem in a traditional form- something before 1900. Use this worksheet to copy and paste the original and to write a “modernist” adaption of the poem.

What is the rhyme scheme in this excerpt from longfellow's, "the tide rises, the tide falls? " (10 points) the tide rises, the tide falls, the twilight darkens, the curlew calls; along the sea-sands damp and brown the traveler hastens toward the town, and the tide rises, the tide falls.