# The Atoz Game (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097 "2022-08-04T15:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 364
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7262 "2025-01-12T23:04:56Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7263 "2025-01-13T01:29:53Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson His best known poem is “Lift Every Voice and Sing”. Set to music, it has become known as the “Black National Anthem”. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7264 "2025-01-13T01:39:51Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7265 "2025-01-13T01:47:20Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7266 "2025-01-13T02:55:22Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7267 "2025-01-13T03:03:41Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden One of his best works: ['The Cow' - Ogden Nash](https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/cow.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7268 "2025-01-13T13:30:48Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia I googled "poetry terms that start with “o.” I say anytime you can use the word “Onomatopoeia,” you definitely should! ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7269 "2025-01-13T13:44:33Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7270 "2025-01-13T16:56:25Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7271 "2025-01-13T17:11:36Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain Rhyme ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7272 "2025-01-13T17:24:34Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain Rhyme Sonnets Specifically, _Sonnets from the Portuguese #43_ This is the one that starts, _“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7273 "2025-01-13T20:41:44Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain Rhyme Sonnets Tetrameter ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7274 "2025-01-14T03:35:40Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain Rhyme Sonnets Tetrameter Ulysses (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7275 "2025-01-14T12:59:37Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain Rhyme Sonnets Tetrameter Ulysses (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) Verse ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7276 "2025-01-14T14:36:47Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain Rhyme Sonnets Tetrameter Ulysses (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) Verse Walt Whitman ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7277 "2025-01-14T14:48:17Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain Rhyme Sonnets Tetrameter Ulysses (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) Verse Walt Whitman Xanadu (from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan - I was an English major in college) ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7278 "2025-01-14T15:02:35Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain Rhyme Sonnets Tetrameter Ulysses (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) Verse Walt Whitman Xanadu Yeats, W.B. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7279 "2025-01-14T15:09:29Z")
**Poets and Poetry** Acrostic Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Cadence Dickinson, Emily Elegaic couplet Frost, Robert Gwawdodyn Haiku Iambic Pentameter James Weldon Johnson Keats, John Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Meter/metre Nash, Ogden Onomatopoeia Prose Quintain Rhyme Sonnets Tetrameter Ulysses (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) Verse Walt Whitman Xanadu Yeats, W.B. [Zane Grey](https://www.azpoetry.com/recipe-for-greatness-by-zane-grey/#google_vignette) (who knew?) **Verbs** Aim ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7280 "2025-01-14T15:57:39Z")
**Verbs** Aim Bless ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/7281 "2025-01-14T16:04:58Z")
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