Sheshire
Type:
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Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme
Requirement, Isosyllabic, Pivot Requirement
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Description:
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A poem based on six-line verses with a closing
couplet. Here are Chuck’s rules:
The derivation is from the Hebrew words shesh and
shir or shira meaning six poem.
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Attributed to:
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Charles David Lipsig
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Origin:
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American (Jewish)
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Schematic:
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Rhyme: ababab or abcabc
Total schema:
ababab cdcdcd efefef gg or
abcabc defdef ghighi jj
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Rhythm/Stanza Length:
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6
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Line/Poem Length:
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20
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Examples:
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Status:
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Incomplete
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See Also:
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Pasted from <http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/002/253.shtml>
My thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for the wonderful resource quoted.
- The Sheshire is an invented
verse form by Jewish-American poet Charles David Lipsig found at Poetry
BaseThe name comes from Hebrew six=shesh and
poem=shir.
The Sheshire is: - a poem of 20 lines made up of 3 sixains followed by a couplet.
- isosyllabic except the last line which includes the the # of syllables as the previous lines plus a finishing phrase separated from the base line by caesura.
- rhymed, rhyme scheme ababab cdcdcd efefef gg or abcabc defdef ghighi jj.
- composed with a pivot or change of tone from stanza to stanza and ends with a note of irony.
My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful resource quoted.
Example
Poem
Shovel
Snow (Sheshire)
When
I was only nine or ten
and
winter's chilly nights dumped snow,
I
loved to help my daddy then
We'd
bundle up, he'd say, "Let's go!"
Together,
we two working men
would
scrape and push and scoop and throw.
Into
my teens I found it paid
to
take my shovel- make the rounds
to
work for those who were dismayed
how
quickly that white stuff abounds.
While
others in their warm homes stayed
I
worked with scraping, grunting sounds.
I
had no sons to share the task.
Our
drive was shaded by our house;
"Please
clean the walk," my wife would ask.
Of
course one ought to please one's spouse
so
covered up, and with ski-mask
I
worked. It did no good to grouse.
Retired
and lazy now I nap
or
read or watch my football game. (Let
teens now do that crap!)
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Lawrencealot - February 2, 2014
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