The current Brain Aerobics Weekly also features a fill-in-the-blanks exercise related to rhyming poetry. You could also take these couplets as a charades challenge. Still another idea is to give each person in a group one line from a famous couplet and ask everyone to find their match. Here are a few examples from Longfellow, Houseman, Poe, Frost, and Kilmer:
I shot an arrow in the air,
It fell to earth I know not where.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas, but not your heart away.”
Once upon a midnight dreary,
While I pondered weak and weary . . .
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. . .
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