| Poem | Life Span | Initials | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I wandered lonely as a cloud | 1770-1850 | WW | William Wordsworth | 100%
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| The charge of the Light Brigade | 1809-1892 | A,LT | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 95%
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| Havisham | 1955- | CAD | Carol Ann Duffy | 70%
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| Overture to Death | 1904-1972 | CD-L | Cecil Day-Lewis | 65%
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| A Shropshire Lad | 1906-1984 | JB | John Betjeman | 65%
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| Crow | 1930-1998 | TH | Ted Hughes | 65%
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| Chainsaw versus the pampas grass | 1963- | SA | Simon Armitage | 60%
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| Holy island | 1952- | AM | Andrew Motion | 50%
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| Absalom and Achitophel | 1631-1700 | JD | John Dryden | 50%
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| Renyard the fox | 1878-1967 | JM | John Masefield | 45%
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| After Blenheim | 1774-1843 | RS | Robert Southey | 45%
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| The Blind Boy | 1671-1757 | CC | Colly Cibber | 30%
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| Alfred | 1745-1813 | HJP | Henry James Pye | 30%
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| While shepherds watched their flocks by night | 1652-1715 | NT | Nahum Tate | 25%
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| Dear Pretty Youth | 1640-1692 | TS | Thomas Shadwell | 25%
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| Love's Blindness | 1835-1913 | AA | Alfred Austin | 20%
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| The Brave | 1674-1718 | NR | Nicholas Rowe | 20%
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| The Evening Darkens over | 1844-1930 | RB | Robert Bridges | 20%
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| The Pleasures of Melancholy | 128-1790 | TW | Thomas Warton | 20%
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| The Je Ne Sais Quoi | 1715-1785 | WW | William Whitehead | 15%
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| The Origin of the Knights of the Bath | 1688-1730 | LE | Laurence Eusden | 5%
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