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Poetry Word Search
11 words · 11×11 grid
How to play: click (or tap) the first letter, drag to the last letter, then release. Words go in any direction, including backwards. Or download the PDF to solve on paper.
Find these words
METER is the heartbeat under the words, and you feel it a moment before you notice it is there. It is what makes a line stay in your head for forty years without your consent. STANZA, SONNET, REFRAIN, ELEGY. The grid holds the machinery of that particular magic.
Some puzzle books print word find on the cover and others print word search. This poetry grid works for either.
Frequently asked questions
What is an elegy?
A poem of mourning, written for someone or something lost, and one of the oldest forms there is.
How long is a sonnet?
Fourteen lines, always, with a turn of thought somewhere in the middle that the whole form is built around.
