Question

Name the stanza form used in the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

• A. Couplets
• B. Quatrains
• C. Tercets
• D. Sestets

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Quatrains

• The poem is written in four-line stanzas, or quatrains.

• Each quatrain follows the rhyme scheme abab.

• The poem is considered one of the best-known elegies in the English language.

• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is composed of heroic 32 stanzas, with the last three being an epitaph of 3 additional stanzas.