“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” “The Cross of Snow”

““The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”“The Cross of Snow”“The Cross of Snow”

Meter

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).

Literary Terms

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.

Longfellow Analysis