““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