HELP PLS Ode to Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close
bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eavesrun;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And
still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they
think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.
by John Keats

Directions: Choose the best answer.
1. What makes this poem an ode?
a) It shows grief for something lost or d e a d.
b) It is a formal poem of praise for someone or something.
c) It tells the story of an actual historical event.
d) It has fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter.

2. The excerpt above is only one stanza of the ode – the other stanzas probably contain:
a) praise for autumn’s plentiful harvest and weather
b) a description of a death that took place during the fall of the year.
c) three lines each with five, seven, and five syllables.
d) complaints about autumn rain and frost.

3. To what does the poet refer in the phrase “their clammy cells"?
a) the petals of a flower
b) the honey cells of a beehive
c) the prison cells in the local jail
d) the biological cells in a hazelnut

4. List five things that you would praise about your favorite season.