Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi
by Yone Noguchi

What is life? A voice,
A thought, a light on the dark,—
Lo, crow in the sky.
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Consider the descriptions of poetic forms:
A ballad is a narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung. It consists of simple stanzas and usually has a refrain (repeated lines).
The tricky part is that the 1st and 3rd lines from the first stanza are alternately repeated so that the 1st line becomes the last line in the second stanza, and the 3rd line becomes the last line in the third stanza. The last two lines of the poem are lines 1 and 3 respectively, making a rhymed couplet.
A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme.
A haiku uses no more than 17 syllables, arranging these often in lines of 5-7-5 syllables and avoiding similes and metaphors.
Free verse is a style of poetry that is based on cadences that are more irregular than those of traditional poetic meter. While the basic rhythmic unit of most traditional poetic forms is the foot, free verse tends to use longer units, such as the line or stanza. Free verse may or may not use rhyme. When it is used, it tends to follow a looser pattern than would be expected in formal verse.

Based on the descriptions, which type of poem is the passage?
A.
sonnet
B.
haiku
C.
ballad
D.
free verse