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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Cascade



Created by Udit Bhatia, the Cascade form "is all about receptiveness, but in a smooth cascading way like a waterfall". There is no set meter or rhyme scheme. The defining feature of the form is that the lines of the first stanza are repeated as refrain lines in subsequent stanzas to give a "cascading effect". S1 L1 is repeated as the last line of S2, S1 L2 is repeated as the last line of S3, and so on until all lines in S1 have been used. The number of stanzas is therefore one more than the number of lines in S1.

Example rhyme scheme for a three stanza Cascade: ABC deA fgB hiC 


 Example Poem

Write a Cascade

The cascade poem can grow in length and width. It's flexible.
If three lines in one stanza, then stanzas will add up to four.
That means a cascade can be used for many types of contests.

This is an example , a small sample, meter is ignored.
Allowing able alliteration,  but without end rhyme.
The cascade poem can grow in length and width. It's flexible.

You shall see in Cascade Two that rhyme was planned for and was used.
This monstrous, frigging thing  clamors for abundant verbiage.
If three lines in one stanza, then stanzas will add up to four.

Since this was didactic write, with no metaphor and image.
The flowing effect of my repeating lines might not appear.
That means a cascade can be used for many types of contests.

(c) Lawrencealot - April 22, 2012




Visual Template
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