The Walrus and the Carpenter worksheet

Directions: Answer each question with a complete sentence. Incorporate part of the question into the answer. Best answers use lines from the poem as support.

1. List the number of lines that occurs in each of the stanzas.

2. List the prevailing rhyme scheme of the sestets.

3. Who are the two characters of this ballad?

4. What happens to the oysters?

5. A simile compares to unlike things using the words “like” or “as.” List two comparisons in this poem that use “as” but are not similes.