“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”
“The Cross of Snow”
 Meter
Literary Terms
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 Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
 Has a “sing-song” sound when read aloud
 Sonnet
 14-line rhymed poem
 It usually still has the “sing-song” sound when read
aloud (with a pattern of stressed and unstressed
syllables).
Longfellow Analysis
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 Read “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” (pg. 172)
 Read “The Cross of Snow” (pg. 174)
 Create a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast
Longfellow’s poems.
 Underneath your diagram, write a brief paragraph
explaining how these two poems are “Romantic”
poems.