Greetings! Guys, excuse my absence. I will be back with a post to explain. Apologies! The Poetic Form of the Week is “Harrisham Rhyme“ Harrisham Rhyme, created by the female poet, Harrisham Minhas, belonging to the State of Punjab in India, of a six-line rhyming stanza. In this form, the last alphabet of the first word of each line is the first alphabet of the first … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Harrisham Rhyme
Greetings! The Poetic Form of this Week is Christ-in-a-Rhyme. The Christ-in-a-Rhyme, a shape poem of the spiriatual nature, was created by Christina R Jussaume on October 3, 2006, consists of five 3-lined stanza that must rhyme (scheme for this form is aaa, bbb, ccc, ddd, eee) and a syllable count of each stanza is as follows: Stanza 1 – 8 syllables Stanza 2 – 14 syllables Stanza 3 – 7 … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Christ-in-a-Rhyme
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is Decuain. The Decuain (pronounced deck•won), created by Shelley A. Cephas, is a short poem made up of 10 lines, which can be written on any subject. There are 10 syllables per line and the poem is written in iambic pentameter. There are 3 set choices of rhyme scheme: ababbcbcaa, ababbcbcbb, or ababbcbccc For a longer Decuain poem, add more stanzas for … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Decuain
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is Clarity Pyramid. The Clarity Pyramid is a poetry form designed and constructed by Jerry P. Quinn. A Clarity Pyramid is a poem consisting of two triplets and a single line (7 lines in all). Usually, this poem is center aligned when displayed. The first triplet has 1, 2, and 3 syllables. The title of the poem is the … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Clarity Pyramid
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is Joseph’s Star. The Joseph’s Star, a poetry form created by Christina R Jussaume on 08/06/07 in memory of her Dad. This poem has no rhyme, and is written according to syllable counts. Syllables are 1, 3, 5, 7, 7, 5, 3, and 1. The poem may be written on any subject, be center aligned, has no stanza limit, and should have complete … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Joseph’s Star
Greetings! This week’s Poetry form is Triquain. The Triquain, created by Shelley A. Cephas, is a poem with several creative variences and can be a rhyming or non-rhyming verse. The simpliest form is a poem made up of 7 lines with 3, 6, 9, 12, 9, 6, and 3 syllables in this order. Triquain Chain: a string of 2 to 4 Triquains, a space between each … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Triquain
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is “Quinzaine”. The English word quinzaine come from the French word qunize, meaning fifteen. A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. These syllables are distributed among three lines so that there are seven syllables in the first line, five in the second line and three in the third line (7/5/3). The first line makes a statement. The next two … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Quinzaine
Greetings! The Poetic form of the Week is Monoku. Monoku is a senryu/haiku with a slight enigmatic/ambiguous flavour, written in its earlier Japanese form as a one liner. A ceaesura (pause) may be appropriate, dictated by sense or speech rhythm,and usually very little punctuation. Seveteen syllables or less. They may also be in a sequence form. Few Examples of Monoku: #1 listen to the pause – silence is … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Monoku
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is CLERIHEW. Named after its inventor, this is a four-line poem rhymed aabb; its first line is the name of the subject of the poem, it often breaks into two sentences at the end of the second line, and the rhythm tends to be entertainingly irregular. A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – CLERIHEW
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is Naani. It is a traditional poetry form. Naani is one of Indian’s most popular Telugu poems. Naani means an expression of one and all. It consists of 4 lines, the total lines consists of 20 to 25 syllables. The poem is not bounded to a particular subject. Generally it depends upon human relations and current statements. This … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Naani
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