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This week's quiz contains a logic puzzle.

It is common for a poet to have a muse - a figure to whom the poet turns for inspiration. For example, each of five poets (including Nelson) in their writing workshop is currently creating an epic work about his muse (no two of whom have the same name, one is named Dulcinea). Each work is divided up into three sections - one in praise of the muse's eyes, one about her hair, and one devoted to her skin. In yesterday's workshop, each poet read a different, striking metaphor from each of his poem's three sections (one wrote of "skin that glows like a halo"). From the information provided, match each poet with his muse and determine the metaphor he used to describe the muse's eyes (one wrote "Your eyes are icicles piercing my soul), hair, and skin.

1. Both the poet who wrote, "Your eyes are lumps of coal," and the one who wrote, "Your hair is a thunderstorm," wrote four stanzas about the skin of their muses. The poet who wrote, "Your skin is as warm as sunrise," composed 6 stanzas about his muse's skin.
2. Both Abel (who isn't the poet who wrote, "Your eyes are deep dark wells") and the poet who wrote of Cressida wrote five stanzas about their muses' eyes. Of the lines "your eyes are gooey gumdrops," "your hair is a spider web and I am the spider," none was written by either Abel or Cressida's poet.
3. Both the poet who described his muse's hair as "a winter wind" and the poet who wrote of skin "as soft as a cloud" wrote six stanzas about their muses' eyes. Sloane wrote four stanzas about his muse's hair.
4. Neither the poet who wrote about Lucinda nor the one who wrote of Beatrice (who isn't Eliot's muse) wrote four stanzas about any of his muse's attributes.
5. Each of the three poets - the one who wrote of Beatrice, the one who described his muse's hair as "a gossamer veil," and Boris - wrote seven stanzas about his muse's hair. The poet who wrote of "skin the color of caramel, and just as sweet" wrote eight stanzas about his muse's hair. The poet who described the eyes as "shiny buttons" spent four stanzas on his muse's hair.
6. Deanna's poet wrote six stanzas about her eyes and eight stanzas about her hair. The poet who wrote of "hair smelling like ocean breeze" wrote eight stanzas about his muse's eyes and four about her hair.

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