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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Soft-Songed Tercet

Soft-Songed Tercet
Type:
Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement, Simple
Description:
This form has four requirements.
  1. It is iambic.
  2. The schema is:

    xxxxxa
    xxxxxbxxxxxb
    xxxxxa
  3. There must be an unusual image or turn of phrase.
  4. It must have a soft feel to it.
There is also a multi-stanza form called the soft-songed triplet.
Schematic:
Rhyme/Syllable:
xxxxxa
xxxxxbxxxxxb
xxxxxa
Meter:
xX xX xX


Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for the wonderful resource.
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  • Soft Songed Tercet is an invented verse form found at Poetry Base that has an unusual request, the verse must have a "soft feel".

    The Soft Songed Tercet is:
    • a tristich, a poem in 3 lines. When written in more than one tercet the form is oddly named the Soft Songed Triplet. ("Tercet" is 3 line unit as is a "triplet", both of which can be written in any number within a poem. The words are often used interchangeably however, the classic English "triplet" is usually monorhymed. So technically the name Soft Songed Tercet properly should apply to both a single tristich or the stanzaic form of any number of tercets.)
    • metered, iambic, L1 &L3 are trimeter, L2 is hexameter.
    • rhymed, rhymed a(bb)a L2 has internal rhyme.
    • composed with an unusual image.
    • composed with a "soft feel".
      x x x x x a
      x x x x x b x x x x x b
      x x x x x a

      Furry Fix by jvg

      Silky fluff warms my palm
      as I cup a small plump rabbit waiting to jump
      free. Its fine fur a balm.


Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful resource.


Example Poem

Fluppet











So fluffy I've been made
I'll bring your daughter joy - become her favorite toy,
she'll never be afraid.

© Lawrencealot - February 6, 2014

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