Readers & Fellow Bloggers! Happy New Year to all of you. May you all shine with happiness! Today is Monday and so is the day of Poetry Forms. This week I would like to share with you all the technique and method to write a Pantoum. Well, this is a Malaysia-originated form and the following extract shows how it has come the long way. Have a … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Pantoum
Readers & fellow bloggers! I am back with this post on poetry forms and this week it is a haibun. Haibun is a slightly different poetry form as it involves a prose before the actual poem and this is what makes this a unique poetry form. Do read about how it is written and few examples on it below! Enjoy! Haibun is a poetic form … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Haibun
Hello Readers! I am glad to be back with the poetry form for this week! Since Christmas is near, I feel I need to keep easy on the poetry forms as they go for the making of the Be Inspired Challenge! I feel this blog has really been a host to many poetry readers to learn about various Poetry forms and I feel great to … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Nonet
Welcome back readers! I am glad to be back with the poetry forms this week. Well, as you may have already read, the form is a Tanka and one of the most smallest poetry forms used to write your thoughts. This post will help you know more about Tanka, the technique behind it, what topics it is usually used to write on and its origin! … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Tanka
This week’s Poetry form is Limerick. This post documents information about the form and how it is written. If you like the post, you are free to write anything limerick and post your poem in the comment box below. It is always exciting to try something new and I hope you all read about this amazingly different writing style and practice it! Happy Reading! A … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Limerick
Readers! This week’s poetry form is Haiku. Read below how it evolved and how is it regarded as one of the best written forms today! A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression. Haiku began in thirteenth-century Japan as the opening phrase … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Haiku
Hi all! This week’s poetic form is Cento. It is a poetry form which uses images to draw an idea. Let us discover about how it was originated and how it is written by the information I provide below. CENTO From the Latin word for “patchwork,” the cento (or collage poem) is a poetic form made up of lines from poems by other poets. Though poets … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Cento
Heya Readers! This week’s poetic form is “Ghazal“. Hope you like the information on how it is written and try it yourself as well! Happy Reading!! The ghazal is composed of a minimum of five couplets—and typically no more than fifteen—that are structurally, thematically, and emotionally autonomous. Each line of the poem must be of the same length, though meter is not imposed in English. … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Ghazal
Readers! This week’s Poetic Form is Elegy! I am stunned at the response from you all in regards to the form I share every week. You can use this form and share your creativity. Whatever it is, stay inspired and learn this form. It’s awesome! The elegy began as an ancient Greek metrical form and is traditionally written in response to the death of a … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Elegy
The cinquain, also known as a quintain or quintet, is a poem or stanza composed of five lines. Examples of cinquains can be found in many European languages, and the origin of the form dates back to medieval French poetry. The most common cinquains in English follow a rhyme scheme of ababb, abaab or abccb. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century poets such as Sir Philip Sidney, George Herbert, Edmund Waller, and John Donne frequently employed … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Cinquain
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