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Octaz-Rhyme
Syllable count is 3,5,8,10,7,5,4,2, Rhyming a,b,b,c,c,d,d,a CENTERED This form was created by Chazz Combs
Format: Line 1 - rhyme a Line 2 - rhyme b Line 3 - rhyme a Line 4 - rhyme b Line 5 - rhyme a
Line 6 - rhyme b Line 7 - rhyme c Line 8 - rhyme c
Ten syllables per line.
Palindrome
Also Known as Mirrored Poetry
A palindrome, by definition, is a word, phrase, verse, sentence, or even poem that reads the same forward or backward. It stems from the Greek word palindromos: palin, meaning again, and dromos, meaning a running. Combining the two together, the Greek meaning gives us, running back again... !--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--[endif]-
A cyclic and repeating form, the pantoum must be at least four stanzas, and can be any length beyond that number. It has a complex rhyme scheme as follows:
Line 1 - Rhyme A Line 2 - Rhyme B Line 3 - Rhyme A Line 4 - Rhyme B Line 5 - Repeat line 2 (rhyme B) Line 6 - Rhyme C Line 7 - Repeat line 4 (rhyme B)
Line 8 - Rhyme C Continue the cycle carrying the even lines to the odd of the next stanza for as many stanzas through or beyond the four minimum as you wish. The last stanza is built as follows: Line 2 of penultimate stanza Line 3 of FIRST stanza Line 4 of penultimate stanza Line 1 of FIRST stanza
Parallelismus Membrorum is of traditional Hebrew origin. It has lines of parallel construction and presents antitheses and complementary extensions.
Patricia’s Harmony
The form starts with 4 senyru. These senyru begin with the letters P A T R I C I A S H A R. Next 8 syllable count quatrain in rhyme. This must start with the letters M O N Y. The poem must be spiritual in nature. She incorporated an acrostic, senyru, and quatrain style within this style. This form was created by Christina R Jussaume as a tribute to a special poet friend named Patricia Ann Farnsworth Simpson.
10 line free verse Each line contains 6 syllables Line 5 and 6 are identical
Line 5 ends first half Line 6 starts second Both halves different
Plane 9/11
A form created by John W. Henson on
1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,11,11,11,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,11.
Pleiades allows only one word in the title, followed by a single seven-line stanza of six syllables per line. The first word in each line begins with the same letter as the title, and the title is the poem's theme.
A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fouth line of stanza four. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme scheme. line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 line 5 line 6 (line 1) line 7 line 8 line 9 line 10 line 11 (line 1) line 12 line 13 line 14 line 15 line 16 (line 1)
Four line stanzas of any kind, rhymed, metered, or otherwise. Like the couplet, there are many variations of the quatrain.
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 (
Rannaicheacht Ghairid
A Quatrain with unevenlines. The first three syllables, the other three have seven. The stanza rhymes are a a b a, with a cross rhyme between three and four. xxa xxxxxxa xxxxxxb xxbxxxa
A Redondilla is an eight-syllable quatrain rhyming either abba or abab, but in the latter rhyme scheme it is usually called serventesio.
A renga is a series of linked poems of alternating
RETOURNE:
A French form that occurs when a Kyrielle mates with a glosa: 4 quatrains. The second through fourth lines of the first quatrain become the first lines of the second through fourth quatrains. These are 8- syllable lines. Four stanzas, for a total of 16 lines.
Having each succeeding unit in a poetic structure longer than the preceding one. Applied to a line, it means that each successive word is a syllable longer that its predecessor.
Rhyming Couplets are a pair of lines, even in syllable count, which share the same end rhyme.
Rhyme Royal
A form of verse having stanzas with seven lines in iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc. Seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc. The rhyme royal was first used in English verse in the 14th century by Geoffrey Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde and The Parlement of Foules. Traditionally, the name rhyme royal is said to derive from The Kingis Quair (“The King’s Book), attributed to James I of Scotland (1394–1437), but some critics trace the name to the French chant royal. Chaucer probably borrowed it from the French poet and musician Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–77), who may have invented it or derived it from earlier French and Provençal poets.
Ricks 32
8 lines 3/4/3/6/6/3/4/3 syllables rhymed or unrhymed..two or more stanza..any subject created..by Erich J.Goller (
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This is a single-stanza form in which a usually closing short line rhymes with a previous short line, with both short lines separated by longer lines. No number of syllables for either the short lines or the long ones is specified, although eight-to-ten for the long lines and four-to-six for the short ones is usual. Although no set form for number of lines exists, a typical form and rhyme scheme could be as follows:
xxxxxxxa xxxxxxxa xxxxxb xxxxxxxa xxxxxxxa xxxxxb
This Tuscan folk verse form is a version of the strambotto. In its earliest form, the rhyme scheme was usually abababcc, a scheme which evolved to ababccdd, and other variations can be found. Current acceptance is for any complete poem of two rhymed quatrains, and although the rispetto was classically composed of eight hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) lines, the current climate favors iambic tetrameter.
Ronsardian Ode
From a French poet of the 17th century. Syllable count is 10, 4, 10, 4, 10, 10, 4, 4, and 8 Rhyme scheme is ABABCCDDC
A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short - a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one - normally the first few words (four syllables). The other lines are longer, eight syllables.
The Rondeau Redouble is not, as its name suggests, a double rondeau. With a strict rhyming pattern it consists of six stanzas (quatrains) and a final refrain, all on two rhymes. Each line of the first stanza becomes, in turn, the last line of the four succeeding stanzas. The sixth stanza is all new though followed by the first phrase of the first line.
There are twelve lines in three stanzas, rhyming abba; abR; abbaR, where "R" denotes the refrain. (Sometimes the first two stanzas are run together.) Compared with the rondeau, each stanza is one line shorter, the "missing" line being the first in each case. The refrain is made up from the first few words (four syllables) of the first line. Eight syllables per line.
This arabic format has a quatrain wherein the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme. The rhyme scheme is thus; a-a-b-a. A single stanza can be a poem in itself or multiple stanzas may be joined to create a larger piece. Eight syllables per line.
The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of a pair of katauta as a single poem, and may address the same subject from differing perspectives. It consists of two three-line katauta with the syllable counts of five/seven/seven, five/seven/seven.
Within a humanities theme, this unrhymed Japanese form records the essence of a moment. Containing no more that seventeen syllables, often ironic, sardonic, or sarcastic, it consists of three lines as follows:
Line one: five syllables or less, and shorter than line two
Line two: seven syllables or less, longer than either one or three; Line three: should balance line one in syllable count. Thus, four/six/four or two/three/two would be acceptable; three/five/four would not.
The Septolet is a poem in two parts, consisting of a total of seven lines containing fourteen words. A break separates the two parts between lines four and five. Both parts deal with the same thought, and together they create a picture. Although arithmetic suggests that seven lines and fourteen words requires two words per line, that is not a rule. In theory, each of the first four lines could be one word each, with the next three lines having the rest.
created by Dorian Petersen Potter
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This form has 14 lines with 8 syllables each.
It can be written in 3 quatrain stanzas and a couplet or
with an Octave(8) and a Sestet(6) lines.
The rhyme scheme is as follows: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.
The capitals A1,A2,B1 and B2...stands for the refrain lines in the poem.
Star Of David
The 'Star of David" is a new poetry
form created by Dorian Petersen Potter,
on
This poetic concrete form consists of 19 lines.
Rhyme is optional. This is left to the poet.
The syllable count for this format is as follows:
At the very top and going down and across, begin with the number of syllables:
1,2,3,4,5 and then continuing down and across do 11,10,8,8,7,8,9,10, 11,5,4,3,2, and end with 1 syllable.
This form has to align in the center, if you have done correctly the syllable count lines, you'll see and have
done a very pretty star shape and decided to call it the " Star of David" because that what came to my
mind and reminded me of, when I designed this poetic form.
Subject: Spiritual, inspirational or uplifting in nature.
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