Excerpt from "The Bells"
by Edgar Allan Poe
Hear the sledges with the bells
Silver bells
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
Which type of poetry is "The Bells" most similar to?
A. free verse
B. lyric poetry
C. Japanese cinquain
D. Shakespearean sonnet