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1. What is the poem’s form?
A) Free verse
B) Metrical
C) Blank verse
D) Rhymed
2. What is the effect of the poem’s form?
A) Distance
B) Detachment
C) Intimacy
D) Tension
3. Why might each stanza contain three lines?
A) There are three beached skulls.
B) There are three sailors.
C) There are three verses to the song.
D) There are three Sirens.
4. What is the effect of the enjambment in lines 23-25?
A) The reader is given opportunities to turn away but doesn’t take them.
B) The reader is propelled to the next line, unable to turn away from the song.
C) The reader is lulled into submission by the Siren’s cry for help.
D) The reader is given the chance to save the sailors, but they prefer the Siren.
5. What is the effect of the repetition in the final three stanzas?
A) Warning
B) Pity
C) Seduction
D) Jealousy
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