| 100% | EPODE | 5 | Poem with one long line and one short line |
| 49% | EPODE | 5 | Type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one |
| 47% | LUTE | 4 | One with a long neck and a rounded body |
| 47% | ANGLER | 6 | One with a hook, line and sinker |
| 46% | DESIRE | 6 | "...And humbler growths as moved with one ___..." (3rd line from a spring-themed poem written by 14a) |
| 45% | RABBIT | 6 | Common burrowing mammal with long ears and a short tail |
| 45% | TREX | 4 | Dino with long teeth and short arms |
| 43% | DACTYL | 6 | A poetic unit of one long and two short syllables |
| 43% | CPA | 3 | One working with checks and balances, for short |
| 42% | TON | 3 | Unit with short and long versions |
| 42% | BLT | 3 | Sandwich with one type of meat and two vegetables, for short |
| 42% | THELOCUSTTREEINFLOWER | 21 | 1935 poem with one word per line ... as spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 41% | IFMY | 4 | With 36- and 43-Across, second line of the poem |
| 41% | LIT | 3 | English subject with prose and poems, for short |
| 41% | CORGI | 5 | Dog with short legs and a long body |
| 41% | IAMB | 4 | Poetic foot with a short and long syllable |
| 41% | SAUSAGEDOG | 10 | Pet with short legs and a long body, slangily |
| 41% | IAMB | 4 | Poetic foot with a short and a long syllable |
| 41% | IAMB | 4 | Foot with a short part and a long part |
| 40% | DACHSHUND | 9 | Dog with short legs and long body, like a sausage |
| 39% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| 39% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / and be ashamed-" |
| 39% | STILLIRISE | 10 | Classic poem with the lines "Did you want to see me broken? / Bowed head and lowered eyes?" |
| 38% | INA | 3 | With 60-Down, on one's game ... and hint to the start of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 38% | RAVEN | 5 | "The ___," poem by Edgar Allan Poe with the line "...Merely this, and nothing more." |
| 37% | ITOOSINGAMERICA | 15 | Opening of the Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| 37% | STILLIRISE | 10 | Classic poem with the lines "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear ... Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear" |
| 37% | DMV | 3 | Government agcy. with notoriously long lines |
| 37% | NARWHAL | 7 | Arctic mammal with one long tusk |
| 37% | WEEP | 4 | "Immortality," poem by Clare Harner with the line "Do not stand at my grave and ___" |