Today is Poetry Day Ireland – a celebration of the power of Irish poetry. So, dust off that Leaving Cert poetry book by testing yourself on WB Yeats’ The Lake Isle of Innisfree:
"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a _____ cabin build there, of clay and wattles made"
log
small
modest
"________ bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee"
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Six
Eight
Nine
"And live alone in the ____-loud glade"
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bee
peace
calm
"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes _________ slow"
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dropping
falling
gliding
"Dropping from the veils of the ______ to where the cricket sings"
mountain
mist
morning
"There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the _______ wings."
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cricket's
linnet's
antlion's
"I will arise and go now, for always ____________"
night and day
day and night
in the air
"I hear lake water lapping with _______________ by the shore"
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tide sounds
wave sounds
low sounds
"While I stand on the ___________, or on the pavements grey,"
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shore line
roadway
beachside
"I hear it in the deep ________________"
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heart’s core
earth core
downpour
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