Greetings! This Week’s Poetic Form is Memento! This is an invented Poetry Form. Memento, created by Emily Romano is a poem about a holiday or an anniversary, consisting of two stanzas as follows: the syllable count should be 8 beats for line one; 6 beats for line two; and two beats for line three. This is repeated twice for each stanza. The rhyme scheme is: a/b/c/a/b/c for each of … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Memento
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is Tanaga. This is a Filipino Type of Poetry. The Tanaga is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with seven syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line — that is to say a 7-7-7-7 Syllabic verse, with an AABBrhyme scheme as in this example: In the Tagalog original, using archaic orthography: “Catitibay ca tolos sacaling datnang agos! aco’I momonting lomot … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Tanaga
Dear Friends, Fellow Bloggers & Readers! Monday’s Poetry Form is back! This week, the poetry form is “Cascade”. It is a derived poetry form developed by Mr. Udit Bhatia. Cascade, a form created by Udit Bhatia, is all about receptiveness, but in a smooth cascading way like a waterfall. The poem does not have any rhyme scheme; therefore, the layout is simple. Say the first verse … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Cascade
Dear All, Wishing everyone a wonderful day today! 🙂 Monday’s Forms are back! This week, I introduce you all to “Parallelogram de Crystalline“ which is a derived Poetry form by Karan Naidu. Parallelogram de Crystalline is a poetry form created by Karan Naidu. This form consists of 4 verses of 3 lines each. The syllable count for each stanza is 3, 6, 9. In this style of … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Parallelogram de Crystalline
Readers, friends & fellow bloggers! Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead 🙂 Well, this week, the poetic form is an Etheree. This is a rather simple form of poetry & a delight to write. Read the following paragraphs to know how is an Etheree written. The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. Etheree can also be … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Etheree
Readers, fellow bloggers & friends, I’m extremely sorry for the delay! This week’s Poetic form is “Monody” Well, A monody is a poem in which one person laments another’s death, as in Tennyson’s Break, Break, Break,or Wordsworth’s She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways. In poetry, the term monody has become specialized to refer to a poem in which one person laments another’s death. (In the context of ancient Greek literature, monody, μονῳδία could simply … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Monody
Readers, friends & fellow bloggers! This week’s Poetic form is “Ode”. “Ode” comes from the Greek aeidein, meaning to sing or chant, and belongs to the long and varied tradition of lyric poetry. Originally accompanied by music and dance, and later reserved by the Romantic poets to convey their strongest sentiments, the ode can be generalized as a formal address to an event, a person, or … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Ode
Readers, friends & fellow bloggers! Wishing you all a wonderful & blessed week ahead! Well, its time for Monday poetic forms & this week’s poetic form is “Epigram” This poetic form is a bit rhymer types and is fun to write! I hope you all will like reading through this post. Happy Reading! An epigram is a short, pithy saying, usually in verse, often with … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Epigram
Dear Friends, Bloggers & Readers! Wishing you all a beautiful Monday and a great week ahead! Well, its Monday again and its the Poetic Form day. This week’s poetic form is “Found Poem”. Have a great read! Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Found Poem
Friends, readers & fellow bloggers! This week’s Poetry form is “Triolet”. I will be posting below how it is written and how it came into existence. I hope you all like it and enjoy! The triolet is a short poem of eight lines with only two rhymes used throughout. The requirements of this fixed form are straightforward: the first line is repeated in the fourth … Continue reading Poetry Form of the Week – Triolet
