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 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 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
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 Be Inspired Weekly Challenge is back! It is in its 19th Week, though the last week was a dull one! The Challenge, unfortunately, did not receive any poem for the Challenge #18 of writing a Cascade. However, I expect many writers- potential and existing, to kindly let me know what changes they would like to see in this Challenge. Like, some inspirational quotes … Continue reading “The Be Inspired Weekly” Writing Challenge #19
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
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