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A poem where 15 syllable stanzas which begin with an anapest foot and
having couplet rhyme alternates with 10 syllable iambic stanzas with cross
rhyme. Rhyme Pattern: aabb cdcd
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Alternating lines of 5 and 3
syllables, where the odd lines consist of an IAMB and an ANAPEST
and the even lines consist of a DACTYL
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Meter: Trochaic
Syllabic: 7/5/7/5 Rhyme Scheme: a/b/c/b or a/b/a/b |
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A poem with no required meter or line length, requiring one rhyme
between the sestet and couplet in each 8 line stanza.
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A form from India. Any number of quatrains.
Syllabic 6/6/6/4 Rhymed: xaax |
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A form not requiring rhyme, but requiring letters or words to form
word(s) or messages when read from consecutive lines.
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The Alliterisen (Complex and
Rhyming), a form created by UditBhatia, is a simple seven-lined poem with a
specific syllable pattern and two alliterations per line.
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Two or more stanzas of 6 lines
each, with the following set rules:
Syllables: 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 7 Rhyme Scheme: aabccb |
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Modern haiku form created by
Beatrice Evans, aka Ronnica at Allpoetry
It requires only strict 5 7 5 syllable construction with all words beginning with the same letter. |
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Syllabic
form: 12/12/10/8/8/10/12/12
Rhyme Scheme: abcDDcba, (with line 5 a refrain of line 4) Alliteration is required in every line. |
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9 line strophe. It is a stand-alone poem.
metric, the 9 most common metric feet are used in sequence. |
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The amphibrach is
a trisyllabic metrical foot, which in accentual meter
consists of an accented syllable between two unaccented syllables
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A 10 line poem, metered,
tetrameter lines alternate with sets of rhymed dimeter couplets. Rhyme scheme abbaccdeed. |
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A 9 line poem
metered iambic pentameter rhyme scheme abbaabbcc. |
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Any number of sestets
Syllalbic 11/11/8/11/11/8 Meter: All lines are acephalous anapestic Rhyme Scheme: aabccb |
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Unrhymed. Invented by A.
Maris Mazz
Each stanza has lines of 2-4-6-2 syllables Any number of stanzas permitted. |
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Syllablic: 1/2/3/4 5/7/7/5
4/3/2/1
The two 7-syllable lines, must use end rhyme. |
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Syllabic: with a break between
stanzas.
1-2-3-4 5-7-7-5 4-3-2-1 1-2-3-4 5-7-7-5 4-3-2-1 1-2-3-4 5-7-7-5 4-3-2-1 |
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Basically 1234~5775~4321234~5775~4321234~5775~4321
*7 syllable lines end rhyme |
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A
complex refrain from of four verses.
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Pronounced ‘owdl gow-widd’.
Seven syllable quatrains with end rhymes and couplet binding. Welsh origin. |
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The Hir a Thoddaid is the most common Awdl from.
Isosyllabic - 10 syllables Rhymed: aaaa(ab)(ba) |
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Dodecasyllabic, mono-rhymed
quatrain. Filipino form.
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a poem in 6 lines.
syllabic, 2-4-6-6-4-2. unrhymed, optional rising and falling end-words. |
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The Rhyme Scheme is: bbaccadda
Syllable count is: 667667667 Any number of stanzas. |
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A short narrative
poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain. The story of a
ballad can originate from a wide range of subject matter but most frequently
deals with folk-lore or popular legends.
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The ballade typically consists of
three stanzas of 8 lines each, with a concluding 4-line envoi often
addressed to a prince.
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Also called Monk’s Tale Stanza.
An 8 syllable octave rhyming: ababbcbc |
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3 - 10 line stanzas, 10 syllables per
line, 5 line envoy, Refrain
ababbccdcD ababbccdcD ababbccdcD ccdcD |
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See The Balance
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It is twelve lines long It is syllabic
10/10/10/6/6/10/10/6/6/10/10/10
A form the rhymes on the send syllable and has normal end rhyme, both with separate rhyme patterns. |
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A shaped form invented by Madison
Shaw, syllable count
2-4-6-8-6-4-2-4-6-8-6-4-2-4-6-8-6-4-2-4-6-8-6-4-2-4-6-8-6-4-2 form should be centered with care given to appearance. |
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The composition in this form must
paint a profile on the Tributee, and use title (s) of
the tributee’s literary production within the stanzas or
stanza.
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A fun easy 5 line sestina type poem, by Bob Newman
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As it turns out this is NOT a
new form, indicated be the comment below: but the poet thought it was, and I
am not knowledgeable enough to recognize historic precedents all of the
time.
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Stanzaic, unmetered, unrhymed, 25
couplets for a poem of 50 lines.
Rapid fire, short lines. |
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stanzaic, written in 2 sixains.
syllabic, 6-8-10-10-8-6 10-8-6-6-8-10 syllables per line. rhyme scheme abccba cbaabc. |
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Terse syllabic
poem, 2/2/4/2/2/4
Any number of stanzas Rhyme Pattern: aabccb ddeffe |
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Word Poem. subject (noun), verb, and object (noun), in this
exact order. The verb should show an ongoing action. This is done by spacing
out the letters in the verb. There are only three words in the poem.
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Informal name created by Mary Boren
Sullivan, aka on Allpoetry.com.
Am adding it so others can have a go at a delightful metric experience. |
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An unrhymed 9 line poem.
syllabic, 2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line. |
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A quintet with separate stanzas having different line lengths, call
penned in iambic meter.
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Byr a Thoddaid (beer ah
TOE-thy’d), one of the 24 traditional Welsh
stanza forms, consists of four lines of syllable count 10-6-8-8 (or 8-8-10-6) |
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syllabic, the Cadence written with 1-2-3-4-4-8-5 syllables
per line.
unrhymed, but end words should be strong, no articles or prepositions. |
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No set meter, rhyme scheme, or stanza length, but the poem must have
one more stanza than there are lines in stanza one. REFRAIN
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A catalectic line is a metrically
incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an
incomplete foot. One form of catalexis is headlessness, where
the unstressed syllable is dropped from the beginning of the line.
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Stanzaic, written in any number of 3
or more quatrains made up of 2 rhymed lines
enveloping a rhymed couplet.
Meter at the discretion of the poet rhyme scheme ABbA BCcb CDdc DEed etc… |
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From the Latin word for
"patchwork," the cento (or collage poem) is a poetic form made up
of lines from poems by other poets.
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Syllable Count: 4/5/6/7
3/4/5/6/7 2/3/4/5/6/7 1/2/3/4/5/6/7
Rhyme Scheme: abcd eabcd feabcd gfeabcd |
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o a poem in 22 lines, written in 3 quatrains, an octave and
a couplet in that order.
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Stanzaic, usually 5 or 6 nonce stanzas
of identical pattern.
expected to be original in form. The metric length of the line, the number of lines in a stanza, the rhyme scheme was expected to be original. |
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A French poetic form and variation of
the ballad form, it consists of five (or three) 11-line stanzas
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A Russian Quatrain form. The name
derives from the Russian meaning ''to speak fast''. Covering subject that
range across the whole human experience and written in a manner that is
usually satirical, ironic or humorous this is the Russian equivalent to the
Limerick
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a decastich, made up of 2 tercets
followed by a quatrain.
written in no particular line length or meter although the form is often written in lines of equal length. Iambic tetrameter or pentameter lines are common. rhymed Abb abA abbA , the A is a refrain. |
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This syllabic form was invented by Silent_Cougar
and it's structure honors native American Heritage. |
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syllabic, 5 to 7 syllable lines.rhymed, rhyme scheme
either xaxa xaxa etc or xaxa xbxb etc.
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A series of Katuata joined together. This gives a choice of
form structures of ..... 5 - 7 - 7 - 5 - 7 - 7.. etc, or .. 5
- 7 - 5 - 5 - 7 - 5, or an alternative version of alternating 5 and 7
syllable lines.
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Written in any number of single lines
made up of 19 syllables divided into 3 rhymed 5 syllable phrases and ending
in a 4 syllable phrase carrying a linking rhyme to the next line.
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A poem consisting of
10 lines with15 syllables per line
Rhyme scheme of aabbcccabc |
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A poem of five cinquains.
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The cinquain, also known as
a quintain or quintet, is a poem or stanza composed of five
lines.
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A series of Crapsey cinquains where
line 5 of one,
is line 1 of the next. |
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a poem in 5 lines.
syllabic, 2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line. unrhymed |
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a hexastich, a poem in 6 lines.
syllabic, lines of 8-6-10-6-8-2 syllables each. rhyme scheme axbaxb, x being unrhymed. |
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Syllabic verse. Two tercets plus a final line.
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A trochee, a dactyl, then three trochees.
The first and last trochess may be spondees. |
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A whimsical, four-line biographical
poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bently, at age 16.
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Welsh form with three versions.
Quintet Version: Syllabic 8/8/4/4/6, Rhymed aabba |
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Five 3-line stanzas, for a total of 15
lines.
The last line of each stanza ends in a compound word and root of that word is in the title. |
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A syllabic sestet with syllables 4/5/6/6/5/4
Rhyme pattern axaxxa |
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Simply a poem that the presented in
the shape of an object. Most often the titles.
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Five or more 3-line stanzas, each
line has eight syllables.
The first lines of all the stanzas can be read successively as an independent poem, |
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A poem consists of exactly two
stanzas, each being an octave.
The rhyme scheme is: abbaccab |
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First stanza: 5-7-9-11-13-15-17
Second stanza: 17-15-13-11-9-7-5 The last word of each line is the first word of the next line. |
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On the Cinquain page.
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4-line stanzas rhyming abab, with syllable counts of 7, 5, 7,
5.
Being Irish, the lengths of the rhyming words are also specified, in this case as 3, 1, 3, 1.The 3's indicate the rhyming words MUST be three syllables long. |
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stanzaic,
written in 3 quatrains.
syllabic,
with 5-3-5-3 5-3-5-3 5-3-5-3 syllables per line.
rhymed, rhyme scheme abab cbcb dbdb.
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An English Haiku analog. Two lines of 17 syllables, 8/9
or 9/8
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A cyclone is a poem that wraps around
to form a loop it is made of 10 stanzas where the last 3 say what the first 3
said.
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Earliest strata of British Celtic poetry
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syllables first two stanzas
is 8, 6, 8, 8, 6, 8.
Syllables for last stanza 6, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8 . The rhyme scheme is ababcb cbcdcd bcbcee. |
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Poem begins with quintain and is
followed by any number of quatrains.
The first line of the poem is the last line of every verse. They are isosyllabic, all having six syllalbles Rhyme pattern: aabb |
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Four, 5 line stanzas each with
syllable count of 5/7/9/7/5
Rhyme Scheme: ababc dcdee ababc dcdee |
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Decastich written in iambic
pentameter. By Shelly A. Cephas.
There are 3 set choices of rhyme scheme: ababbcbcaa, ababbcbcbb, or ababbcbccc |
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A decasticth version of the sestina by Bob Newman
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Syllabic:1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10
Your 10th line is comprised of your first four lines all together as one stand-alone line in quotation marks. |
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Each stanza has 4 lines of 7 syllables
each, rhyming aabb, and both of these rhymes are deibide rhymes i.e. in the
first line of each rhyming pair, the rhyming syllable is stressed, and in the
second it is unstressed.
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The syllable count is 3, 7, 7, 1
and it rhymes aabb. It is essential to the form that the a rhymes have two
syllables, and the b rhymes have one syllable.
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Dekaaz has ten syllables in three
lines:
2 syllables in the first line, 3 syllables in the second, 5 syllable |
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A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast
poem set up in a diamond shape.
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Syllabic:
1/2/3/4/6/8/10/12/10/8/6/4/3/2/1
Rhyme Pattern abbcbccaccbcbba. |
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Noun, Adjective, Description,Feeling, Synonym
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A six stanza poem where the first stanza has six line of six
syllable, the next has five lines of 5 syllables, etc..
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A syllabic three line poem. 10/10/2, Unrhymed
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An 8 or 10 line single stanza poem, isosyllabic,
Rhyming ababcdcd or ababbccdcd |
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It has 26 syllables: 7 in the
first, second and third lines, and 5 in the last line. (7-7-7-5).
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A 12-line poem: a quatrain
of iambic pentameter rhyming abab
(2) a quatrain of "short and snappy" free verse, and (3) a quatrain of blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). The final (12th) line is the same as the first line. |
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A ballade on steroids, this form has six octaves and may have a
quatrain envoy.
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The first line of the first stanza is
repetitive nonsense. The second line of the first stanza is the subject of
the poem, 8 Lines.
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Six decastitch verses of ababbccdcD where the
rhymes are consistent throughout and a possible envoy of ccdcD with D being a
repeated refrain.
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This is
identical to the Ballade, except that both Lines 4 and 8 from the first
stanza become refrains in succeeding stanzas.
Rhyme pattern: abaBbcbC bBcC
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A 35 line isosyllabic form divided into three ten line verses and a
five-line envoi. Each line is usually eight or ten syllables long.
Rhyming Scheme: ababbCcdcD |
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Each quatrain will have its own abab rhyme pattern,
Where the a-rhymes will always be feminine. It is isosyllabic, each line being seven syllables. |
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Begin with any octet with any rhyme scheme and meter.
Break lines 1 and 4 into segments which can be broken in concert with that rhyme scheme. Swap Line 1 to Line eight, after reversing those aforementioned sections Swap Line 4 to Line seven in the same manner. |
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There are two tercet stanzas.
The first two lines in each have rhyming beginning and ending words. The third line needs no rhyme, and summarize the first two. No line length or meter requirements. |
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The dribble is a brief poem consisting
of exactly 100 letters
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syllabic, 4-6-5-5-5-10-10 / 4-6-5-5-5-10-10
rhymed Axxxxxb Axxxxxb , where A is a
refrain.
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The Duo-rhyme, a poetic form created
by Mary L. Ports, is a 10 or 12-line poem, with the first two and last two
lines having the same rhyme scheme, and the center of the poem (lines #3
through #8 or #10) having their own separate mono-rhyme scheme.
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It has no metric requirement but
each stanza alternates between 8 and six syllable lines.
Each Stanza is required to begin with the same character of
the alphabet.
Rhyme Scheme: xaxa xbxb xcxc xdxd |
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1.The first
line of the Emmett is five WORDS long. Each word of the first line becomes
the first word of the following lines. So the second word in line one becomes
the first word of line two, the third word becomes the first word of line
three, etc.
2. To make things a little more complex the Emmett has a Rhyme scheme of a,b,b,a,b. |
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Staircase refrain of line 1
Meter: 8 or 10 syllable per line - though I have see it with but 4 Rhyme Scheme Abab cAca adAd eaeA |
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Metered when quatrains, L1-L3
tetrameter, L4 dimeter.
Rhymee Pattern: aaaB cccB dddB, etc. Metered when quintains, L1, L2, and L5 dimeter, L3 & L4 tetrameter. Rhyme Pattern: AbbbA AcccA AdddA, etc. |
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Stanzaic, written in any number of quintets
metered, most commonly iambic pentameter, although meter is optional. This is a popular form of Quintain having no set measure or foot rhyme scheme ababb, cdcdd etc. |
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The traditional Welsh
form Englyn Milwr (soldier’s englyn): three
7-syllable lines rimed on the last syllable.
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The form consists of three or
more trimeter quintets, usually in Iambic where the 3rd line of
each stanza rhymes with the first line of the following stanza, until the
final stanza which rhymes with the first line of the poem.
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Syllalbic 8/9/9/9/8; Word
Refrain A1bbbA2 A1cccA2…etc
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In essence, the poem is about
delicious cuisine and drinks from the culinary arts. It consists
of seven lines with thirty-three (33) syllables.
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One or more hexasyllabic couplets with interlaced rhyme and
end rhyme.
xbxcxa, where c rhyme is optional, and both b and c rhyme may occur at any syllable in the line (in proper order). |
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The first line is a monosyllabic word;
the second line has two syllables, and so on, until the tenth line with,
ultimately, ten syllables.
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A poem with a humorous pun as the conclusion.
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A form based on the first 7 numbers of the fibonacci sequence 1,1,2,3,5,8,13.
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I find references to
the fifteener as being a very old poetic form, but with no
specifications as to meter or rhyme. Jeff's form requires lyrical meter
and couplet rhyme.
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15 lines, 8 syllables per line
Stanza 1: Aaabb Stanza 2: cccbb Stanza 3: dddaA |
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Two forms, a quatrain or a quintet, both iambic tetrameter for all
lines buts the last, which is iambic hexamter.
Rhymed: aaba (with interlaced rhyme) or aabba. |
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Meter: Tetrameter or Pentameter
Presented as two or more Octaves Rhyming pattern: ababcccc ddeeffff |
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Syllabic, No set meter, No set
line-length, Rhymed, Refrain. Haiku observations
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a small poem, a complete couplet.
syllabic, 4 syllable lines. rhymed. titled. |
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Syllabic verse where rhyme letter correspondes to syllable
count.
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Simply poetry that reads as a coherent
verse from top to bottom or when read from bottom to top.
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Extensive end-line refrains.
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A poem beginning with another poet’s single stanza, which become
lines in your subsequent stanzas.
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A Villanelle type poem with tercets alternating with rhymed
or unrhymed couplets.
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two or more 8 line stanzas,
each with the
refrain rhyming scheme of ababcCab with ONLY the "c-rhyme" requiring the same sound each stanza. There is NO metric or line length requirement, EXCEPT that lines 5 and 6 are shorter than the others. |
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Syllable: 8/7/8/7/7/7/7/7
Rhyme: ababxcxc Refrain: Lines 5 through 7, first four syllables |
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The grooks are characterized by irony, paradox, brevity,
precise use of language, sophisticated rhythms and rhymes and often satiric
nature.
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1. The form is created from 6 triplets
and a quatrain.
2. Line one is repeated as lines 6, 12, 18, 21. 3. Line three is repeated as lines 9, 15, 22. |
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Complex Welsh form with two primary versions.
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A Haiga is a Haiku
accompanied by a picture.
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Tristitch with 17 or fewer syllable, no verbs, each
line separate entity but contributing to whole. Created by Louise Sipfle.
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English-language Haiku may be shorter
than seventeen syllables, though some poets prefer to keep to the 5-7-5
format.
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This form consists of a six-line rhyming stanza.
In this form, the last letter of the first word of each line is the first letter of the first word of next line. Rhyming scheme : ababab. |
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Vividly short poetry, like haikus only
very different... 1 word, 2 words, 3 words and visa Vera.
Creating imagery or conclusions with only six words in all.. |
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Meter: Iambic Trimeter
Rhyme Scheme: a/bb/aa/b c/dd/cc/d ee |
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An Old English poetic form that
consists of
2, 2, 6, 6, 8, 8, 4, 4, 6, 6, 4, 4 syllable line lengths - a total of 12 lines. |
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The true Huitain is a single
verse, eight line poem with eight syllables per line. The rhyme scheme is: ababbcbc
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It is a nine stanza poem. It is syllabic.
The first eight stanzas consist of both a four and five syllable line, in either order, followed by a "quip" of one or two words limited to three syllables. |
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Syllabic, Rhymed abcbac def abcbac def gg
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Stanza 1 4/6/5/7/8
rhymed a b c a b Stanza 2 8/7/5/6/4 Rhymed d e f d e |
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Your title must be 8 syllables in
length
3 sestets (6 lines) 1 ending line 19 lines in all |
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Every word in the first
line should rhyme with the corresponding word in line
2 - Except for one word; those words must have contrary
meanings, but same syllable count.
Invented by Mark Andrew J Terry |
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A poem consisting of any number of sestets, each having 8 syllables,
and rhyming abababor ababba, with the final couplet
indented, and inverting the meaning of the first four lines.
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abcabc,
iambic tetrameter
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Syllablic 1/3/5/7/7/5/3/1 Unrhymed, Centered
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Metered, 5 or 7 character or word lines.
(lines should be same length) composed of 4 lines. Often erotic. |
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Mono-rhyme quintet with line
length growing from 6 to ten syllables
Internal rhyme require for every line, starts with word two of line 1 then "jumps" up a word each line until the last, where it jumps back one word. |
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An Israeli version of the Haiku. 10/7/6 syllables
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a celebration of family and
African-American culture, a praise poem.
a septastich, a poem in 7 lines measured by 7 words in each line. written with no word exceeding 7 letters. |
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It consist of six quatrains, each set
of three having only two rhymes.
Verse one and two being mono-rhyme, and verse three being alternating or cross rhyme. |
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Quatrains with last line refrain.
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Syllabic 8/7/8/7 Rhymed abab, Anapestic
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Syllabic, 5/5/2,Rhymed aab
Minimum of two triplets per stanza Any number of stanzas. |
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The LaJemme is a 5 stanza form created by poets Laura Lamarca and Jem
Farmer.
Syllalbic:10/10/10/10 8/8/8/6 8/8/8/6 10/10/10/10 10/10/10/10 a(ab)(ba)(ab)(dc)(cd)(fe)(ef)g(gf)(fd)(df)h(hi)(ih)(hi)a(ab)(ba)(ab) |
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An Afghan syllabic form, Syllabic, unrhymed couplet 9/13
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It contains a minimum of 4 stanzas, with no maximum length limit.
A strict syllable count of 9/8/9/8 is required per stanza. A1BCA2 abca abca A1BCA2 |
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It contains a minimum of 4 stanzas, with no maximum length limit.
A strict syllable count of 9/8/9/8 is required per stanza. A B A2 C abac abac … AB A2 B C |
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The Lanturne is a five-line
CENTERED verse shaped like a Japanese
lantern with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one. |
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A hybrid (variation) of both the Villanelle and
the Terzanelle forms.
It consists of 6 tercets and 1 quatrain ending with a refrain made up of lines 1 and 3. A1bA2 bcb cdc ded efe fbf ggA1A2 |
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An 8 line poem with the final
line being only four syllables
Simply Trochaic Tetrameter, with catalectic feet providing the bold rhyme Rhyme pattern: ababcdcd |
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Tree or more sestets, internal rhyme,
x(a/b)a(a/b)x(cB), pentasyllabic, Meter not required. |
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Two quatrains with a fixed rhyme
scheme of abcb, defe. The fun part of this poem is
thrown in here as all the FIRST words of each verse should rhyme. There is no
fixed syllable structure to the Lento, but keeping a good, flowing rhythm is
recommended.
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A long refrain poem with 3 or more 12 line stanzas.
The Rhyme pattern is AABBCCDDEEAA, BBffgghhiiAA, CCjjkkllmmAA etc. |
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A Retourne-like refrain poem
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There once was a guy from Nantucket....
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Consists of two or more quatrains of
set syllabic length. 8/8/8/3
and with a specified rhyme pattern zzza Invented by Lisa LaGrange |
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sixains made up of 2 tercets each.
syllabic, 8-4-2-8-4-2 8-4-2-8-4-2. rhymed, rhyme scheme aabccb ddeffe. |
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Word structured stanzas with several options
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Quatrains,4 with 11 syllable, 1 with 5 syllables.
Unrhymed.
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Syllabic, 6/8/6/8/6/8..., a(a/b)b(b/c)c(c/d)d(d/a)
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2 octave stanzas followed by a single
line
12 syllables each line – formulistic abababab cdcdcdcd d rhyme scheme |
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Kelly Lune, Syllables: 5-3-5
Collom Lune, Words: 3-5-3 Any topic, meter, rhyme, metaphor allowed. |
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A isosyllabic (all lines the same number of syllables) octet,
with 5,6, or 7 syllable lines. It is formulistic and unrhymed.
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a heptastich, a poem in 7 lines.
syllabic, 2-3-4-5-4-3-2 syllables per line. unrhymed, each line should end with strong word. |
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a
pentastich, a poem in 5 lines.
syllabic, 4-6-8-4-2 syllables per line.
rhymed, axaxa x being unrhymed.
titled and centered on the page. |
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It is metrical, with the long lines consisting of three anapestic feet and an iamb, and each short line consisting of two anapestic feet and an iamb.
Rhyme pattern: xabbba
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dactylic,
formulistic, hexasyllabic, stanzaic
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abcabc defdef ghigg, Created by chasingtheday of AP.
cross-rhyme, formulistic, stanzaic |
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Themed:
about a holiday or anniversary.
Stanzaic: sestet consisting of two tercets Syllabic: 8/6/2/8/6/2 Rhymed: abcabc |
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It consists of four or more
quatrains, the first three lines being written in
iambic tetrameter and the last line being written in
iambic trimeter.
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syllabic, 7-5-7-5-7-6-7-6-7-7 syllables per
line. All but L6 & L8 begin and end on a stressed syllable. L6 & L8
have feminine endings.
rhyme x a x a x b x b c c, x being unrhymed. Word Refrain. |
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syllabic,
all lines 4 syllables long.
rhymed, rhyme scheme xxaxxa xxbxxb. composed with L3,L6,L9,L12 indented. |
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The Minute Poem is a 60 syllable verse form, one syllable for each second in a
minute. The theme should be an event that is over and done
completely, as in a minute. Since the dominant line is short the effect
is likely humorous, whimsical or semi-serious.
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A titled, unrhymed decastich (10 line poem)
syllabic, 2-4-6-8-2 2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line. |
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Created by Glenda L. Hand.
Usually unrhymed. 17 syllables in five lines. Syllable Count: 1-3-5-7-1 |
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Created by Shelly A. Cephas, formulistic
l or more stanzas of 6 lines, word repeat rhymed or not |
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The poem is formed by three or more
quatrains where two lines within the quatrain are the "mirrored
refrain" or alternating refrain.
The rhyme scheme is as follows: xaBA, xbAB, xaBA, xbAB, etc.. |
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Created by Mary Lou Healy. 5/3/5/3/4, ababa
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Monk’s Tale Stanza
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It starts, ends and is titled after a single word. It follows a mono
rhyme scheme. Each line is typically as short as possible, and the
scenarios expressed become increasingly absurd.
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This form
requires the poet to begin with a couplet, then augment each
succeeding stanza with one more line
Each stanza is to be independent mono-rhyme. |
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An 18 line poem consisting of two octaves and a couplet, with
part-line and full-line refrains.
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Each stanza contains four lines
in monorhyme. Each line is in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a
total of eight syllables. What makes the monotetra so powerful as a
poetic form, is that the last line contains two metrical feet, repeated. It
can have as few as one or two stanzas, or as many as desired.
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9 line syllalbic poem, 2/4/2 2/4/2 2/4/2
Rhymed aba cdc efe. Invent by Emily Romano |
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2 Sestets (6 lines per stanza)
Rhyme scheme: abcddd Internal and External rhyme using the same pattern, on every line. |
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8 syllables : Stanzas 1 -3
7 syllables :Stanza 2 and couplet Rhyming Scheme is: abba bccb cddc ee |
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Complex Syllabic Stanza arrangement
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9/8/7/6/5/4/3/2/1, centered, lines 9, rhyme any, syllabic
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A nine line poem, Syllabic, 8
syllables per line
Rhyme Scheme: aabccbddb Created by Scott J. Alcorn |
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syllabic, 2-4-6-8-8-6-4-3 syllables per line. Not a
typo, the last line takes 3 syllables but the last word must be the same as
the first.
rhymed or unrhymed. If it is rhymed the rhyme scheme is AbcdbcdA. |
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It comprises eight lines as TWO TERCETS and a COUPLET
Refrain line, internal rhyme in one line Abb a(c/c)a bA or A bba (c/c)ab A |
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Two stanzas of 8 lines each. By Shelly A. Cephas
Each line has a syllable count of 5 The set rhyme scheme is: abcdedfd ghcgigdd |
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The Octelle, created by Emily
Romano, is a poem consisting of eight lines using personification and
symbolism in a telling manner. The syllable count structure for this verse
is 8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, and the rhyme scheme is aa/bb/cc/aa.
The first two lines and the last two lines are identical.
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a poem in 8 lines, an octastich.
syllabic, 4-4-6-6-8-8-6-6 syllables per line. unrhymed and no feminine or falling end words |
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Created by Glenda L. Hand.
Usually unrhymed. 17 syllables in five lines. Syllable Count: 1-3-5-7-1 |
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Also by Glenda L. Hand; 1/3/5/7/1/7/5/3/1
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A poem praising a person place or
thing.
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internal and end-rhyme schemes.
Internal rhyme is on syllable 4 or 5 each line. Internal ~ abbaaccb External ~ deeddffe |
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A Ottava Rima is a poem
written in 8-line octaves.
Each line is of a 10 or 11 syllable count in the following rhyme: one octave poem. abababcc |
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10-line verse that rolls out in measured segments, then goes back and
picks up the short threads for the final unraveling.
aa bb cc cddc |
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A very difficult poem to compose with specified metric feet,
required alliteration, intenal rhyme and consonant rhyme.
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The pantoum consists of a
series of quatrains rhyming abab in which the second and
fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the
succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme
as bcbc, cdcd.
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Complex- The first
two lines as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas
must be the same (repeat). Where it begins to get difficult and
become more of a poetic puzzle is when reaching fifth and sixth lines.
These lines must contain all the words from the preceding four lines
within the stanza using them only once to form completely new lines.
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it maintains strict syllable line
count of your choosing:
8*6*8*6, 8*8*8*8, 10*10*10*10, etc...and that each line must begin (anywhere you like) with the last portion of the preceding line. |
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Cambodian verse - four lines of four syllables each, where
lines two and three rhyme. When a poem consists more than one stanza, the
last line of the previous stanza rhymes with the second and third lines of
the following one.
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Line 1 of each verse in Iambic
Tetrameter
Lines 2-4 are Iambic trimeter. The trimeter lines share mono-rhyme. |
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The form consists of one or more
octaves where the 1st and 5th lines are Iambic Trimeter with and
extra unaccented syllable
da DUM da DUM da DUM da (Technically two iambs and an amphibrach) The remaining lines are proper Iambic Trimeter |
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Two or more hexameter mono-rhyme quatrain stanzas, each followed by
the same mono-rhyme couplet.
Rhyme pattern: aaaa BB cccc BB.. Created by Penelope Allen. |
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syllabic, 8-6-4-2-2-4-6-8 syllables
per line.
rhymed, rhyme scheme aabbccdd.
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L1 &
L3 two pentibrach feet
L2 a pentibrach followed by a secundus paeon L4 a pentibrach followed by an iamb |
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syllabic count 2-4-7-8-6; line 1
is the subject; line 2 gives description
line 3, action; line 4, the setting; line 5, final thought. |
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Form Created by John Madison Shaw,
Sr., aka Arkbear on Allpoetry
MUST have 5 Quatrains - No Set Line length - No Set Meter The Nth line of each quatrain must rhyme with each other. Letter use restrictions. |
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The Piaku form takes part of
its name from the fact that the syllable count for each line matches the
digits in Pi.
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A three line form related to Haiku with no restrictions.
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Only one word is allowed in the
title followed by a single seven-line stanza. The first word in
each line begins with the same letter as the title.
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Two stanzas with different thoughts, linked by a one line
stanza set off with tildes.
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9/8/7/6: abab 7/8/9: cdc 9/8/7: cdc 6/7/8/9: fgfg
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Two octets with rhyme pattern abcdabcd abcdabcd
Each Octet consists of two Quatrains, where Line 1 is tetrameter Line 2 Dimeter Line 3 Trimeter Line 4 Dimeter |
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3 or more Octets, each having the following syllable count:
8/8/8/6/8/8/8/6, that is to say Iambic Tetrameter in lines 1/2/3/ and 5/6/7, and Iambic Trimeter in lines 4 and 8. The rhyme scheme is as follows: a/a/(bb)/c, d/d/(ee)/c. |
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The first line of stanza 1 is repeated
as a refrain line as the second line of stanza 2, the third line of
stanza 3 and the last line of stanza 4.
There is no set meter or rhyme scheme. |
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A sestina-like form with 5 keywords and a couplet envoi.
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A syllabic 3-line poem, 7/5/3, unrhymed,
where L1 poses a question and L2 an L3 provide answers.
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abCabC DeFdeF D, syllabic, no meter requierment
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A traditional Irish quatrain of
7-syllable lines ('old-school'), or 8-6-8-6,
ending in 2-syllable words all linked by consonance (in its old meaning, having the same vowels'), with at least two cross-rimes in each couplet (can be consonance in first but should be rime in second)
and alliteration in every
line, which in the second couplet must be between the last two
stressed words in each line, and with the dunedh, of course
(ending in the same word, phrase, or line it began with).
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Very Difficult Ancient Irish quatrain.
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It consists of two quatrains and a
couplet
with syllables of 8/7/8/7/10/10 rhyming abab cdcd ee |
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aabb,or abab, or abcb,
4 quatrains, Spanish, stanzaic, tetrameter
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The RemyLa Rhyme Form, a
form c, consists of 4 quatrain stanzas.
The syllable count per stanza is 8/10/12/8 rhymed abca defd ghig jklj. Created by Laura Lamarca |
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It consists of three, four-line
(Quatrain) stanzas (12 lines)
Lines 1-4 in the opening stanza are the refrain lines Invented by Renee Mathews Jackson |
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Each line of the first of four quatrains, is successively the first
line of the following quatrains
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The ONLY requirement of this form, is that you use
reverse words where ever you might otherwise choose to use rhyme.
Instead of rhyming, the last words of the lines are backwards (reversed) where rhymes would be. |
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A poem consisting of One stanza of Rhyme,
one stanza of haiku, and one stanza of free verse. The order of the components is up to the poet. |
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A poem wherein the Nth word of
every line in each stanza has N-syllables.
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Welsh form.
A four syllable line, each stanza can be of three, four or five lines a..a..a..B. The next stanza rhymes the similar c..c..c..B. |
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Simply a Rhupunt presented
as a long line with internal rhyme.
It is isosyllabic (all lines the same length) with 3, 4, or 5 tetrameter feet. |
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French origin. External rhyme
only. Isosyllabic.
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Stanzaic, any number of sixains made
up of two tercets.
accentual, folk meter of normal speech. L1,L2, L4, L5 are longer lines of a similar length, L3 and L6 are shorter lines of the same length. rhymed, rhyme scheme aabccb, ddeffe, etc |
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Seven lines, usually in iambic
pentameter.
Rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. The stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (aba bb cc) or (abab bcc) |
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Starting your first line with a two
syllable word, you then consecutively increase the number of syllables
per line by two. i.e. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Then down again, 8, 6, 4, 2
Making the final line the same two syllable word you began with.
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1. Pen a line with any number of syllables.
2. For the next line, add one syllable and rhyme with the preceding line. 3. Subtract two syllables and choose a new rhyme word. Repeat instructions 2 thru 3 until instruction 3 would create a zero syllable line. Invented by Thomas Horton |
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Old Irish form. Stanzaic, isosyllabic, syllables 6,rhymed,
cross-rhyme,
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It is similar to
the Monometic form but with the additional constraint of
line-length in feet being required to match the stanza line count.
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Four or more tercet stanzas plus concluding single line.
aba cdc efe ghg x, meter not required, refrain required Internal rhyme in line 2 of each stanza |
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Tuscan form, octave, rhyming
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It is written in iambic tetrameter
with
Any number of mono-rhyme quatrain stanzas, and an ending rhyming couplet. (Becomes Sonnet with 3 stanzas and volta |
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Any number of dactylic stanzas rhymed abab, with cross-rhyme where
the first 7 syllables of line 1 become line 4.
Syllabic variations.
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It is composed of fifteen lines, eight to
ten syllables each, divided stanzaically into a quintet, a
quatrain, and a sestet. The rentrement consists of the first few
words or the entire first line of the first stanza, rhyme: aabba aabR aabbaR
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It uses only two rhymes throughout, repeats
whole lines, and has an awkward repeated half-line at the end.
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Syllabic 4/8/4/8/8/8/4
Rhymed A b A a b b A Where A is the refrain |
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Rhyme Pattern: ababR cdcdR..etc.
Syllables: 8/8/8/8/6 Created by Victoria Sutton |
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A sestet and a quintet, each ending with a short line
taken from the beginning of line 1. |
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The only kind of ode that specifies a particular rhyming scheme - ababccddc, with syllable counts of 10, 4, 10, 4, 10, 10, 4, 4, 8.
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Two different syllabic sestets, rhymed abaaba or ababba
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Refrain poetry, two quatrains plus either a quintet or sestet.
ABba abAB abbaA or ABba abAB abbaAB |
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Complex four sestet poem with 12 repeating couplets, one of which
repeats as each stanzas last two lines.
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A syllabic, stanzaic for consisting of five quintains
Rhyming aabbc ccdde eeffg gghhc, refrains similare to a Rondeau. Created by Mary Sullivan Boren |
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Persian origin. Rhymed aaxa.
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15 or 16 syllable isosyllabic lines
Any number of quatrains rhymed in two or three syllable mono-rhyme. |
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Deplorably funny couplet poems, frequently not in best of
taste.
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Syllabic, each stanza consisting 3 Sapphic Lines plus a Adonic line.
Metrical. The Sapphic lines being trochaic with the central foot being a dactyl (11 syllables), and The Adonic lines being a dactyl followed by a trochee (5 syllables)
Rhymed, the pattern being abab.
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Septet stanza, usually in iambic tetrameter
Rhyming axa bcbc |
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syllabic, 2-4-6-6-4-2 syllables per line.
rhymed, rhyme scheme abccba deffed ghiihg etc. |
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isosyllabic, stanzaic one or more sextets ,abccba
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Complex syllabic quatrain, 8/7/87 with end-rhyme,
cross-rhyme, internal rhyme, word repeat |
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Japanese, syllabic 5/7/7 5/7/7
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a poem in six lines, a hexastich.
syllabic, 3-7-6-5-4-3 syllables per lines. unrhymed. |
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Seven line poem, beings with one syllable, increases by
one each line until 4, then decreases by one until done. |
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a heptastich, a poem in seven lines.
syllabic, 4-6-10-4-6-10-4 syllables per line. rhymed, rhyme scheme ababcca. |
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Verse requiring exactly 14 words
in tercet and quatrain in either order. |
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It is a stanzaic poem,
with six 5-line stanzsa
It is isosyllabic, requiring 7 syllable per line.Rhyme Scheme: aabba Sliding Refrain |
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Syllabic 6/8/8/6/8/6, rhyme abbaba
a Lines Iambic Trimeter, b Lines Iambic Tetrameter Created by Caroline Ann Gordon |
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A fairly difficult 39 line poem consisting of six septets and one
tercet, all reqired to re-use the end words from the first stanza, in
different lines as the end-word. Metered, Un-rhymed.
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Rhymed: ababab, iambic pentameter, specific
word-scheme
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Algernon Charles Swinburne developed
the double sestina, a twelve-line, twelve stanza form with a six line envoi
for the masochistic poet
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This is a syllabic, unrhymed poem in
seven lines 4/5 5/4 4/4/5
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Three sestets and a couplet with last line extended with caesura
Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdcd efefef gg or abcabc defdef ghighi jj |
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Eleven line brevity form. 8/2/8/2/8/2/8/2/8/2/8
Rhymed abbacddceff |
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Meter: Iambic trimeter, EXCEPT
line three which is iambic tetrameter
Rhymed: xaxa xbxb ... Any number of stanzas |
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Sicilian sestet had no set
meter, but the anglicised version uses Iambic tetrameter or
pentameter.
The rhyme pattern is as follows; ababab |
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Korean form. Syllabic, structured, unrhymed.
Each of three lines being from 14 to 16 syllables. |
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Lines of verse without stanza breaks, written in
mono-rhyme changed at the whim of the poet. All lines have two accented
syllables
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A common meter poem, where with rhyme pattern (ax)axa
Where (ax) indicates that end-line is unrhymed, but that there is interleaved rhyme from the first section of the first line to end following end-rhyme. There is a partial refrain from first to last stanza. |
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It has three lines (called the hook, the line and the sinker) of
irregular length. The rhyming structure is AAB.
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Three line poem: 6/12/6, a(b/b)a
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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. |
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Each documented below
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A ten line poem
Requires: IAMBIC PENTAMER using BLANK VERSE |
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Five couplets
Rhyme Scheme: aabbccddee Usually Iambic tetrameter or petameter |
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1. The form is created from three
stanzas.
These consist of two quatrains and one couplet. Variations include the Mini-Dorn with the couplet in the middle. |
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1. The form comprises of two stanzas.
These are a sestet and a quatrain.
2. The sestet and quatrain may appear either way round, but the more usual design is the sestet first. Rhyme Scheme: ababab cdcd |
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1. This form comprises of
two cinquains.
2. There is no set meter or rhyme scheme, though iambic pentameter or tetrameter is common. |
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Invented by Sherman Ripley. It
consists of 7 lines in pentameter, predominately iambic, with two stanzas,
rhyming abba cbc. It is, essentially, half of a sonnet.
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Stanzaic, 4 centered quatrains
Rhyme Scheme: abba ccdd efef abba syllabic 5/6/7/8 8/7/6/5 5/6/7/8 8/7/6/5 |
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Created by Jan Turner, consists of two
or more 6-line stanzas.
Interlaced rhyme betweent lines 1 and two Rhyme scheme: a,a,b,b,c,c |
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A lyrical octave with three major versions.
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Sestet, metrical, isosyllabic lines, one or two refrain lines
Rhymed: aabbcC or AabbaA for three or more stanzas. |
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Stanzaic, consisting of two or
more quintets.
Each stanza is syllabic 7/4/5/3/5 Rhyme pattern: aabba |
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Syllabic: 10/8/10/8/10/10/10/8/10/8
Refrain: Requires the last half of L5 to repeat in each stanza
Rhymed: xaxaBbxaxa xcxcBbxcxc xdxdBbxdxd
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This is a form Invented by British
Poet Luke Prater
it comprises ten lines, ten syllables per line, following the rhyme-scheme/structure aBa BcBc DcD where lowercase are iambic pentameter and uppercase are trochaic pentameter |
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The form has an Ottava Rima
framework in which the sections of the first line are
swapped to become the last line of the stanza.
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Within the Swap Quatrain each stanza
in the poem must be a quatrain (four lines) where the first line is
reversed in the fourth line.
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stanzaic, written in 2 sixains.
syllabic, 4-4-6-4-4-6 syllables per line. rhymed, rhyme scheme xxaxxa xxaxxa. |
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is stanzaic, consisting of any number of stanzas.
It is Syllabic: 10/10/6/10/10/10/6/10/10/10 It is Rhymed: abbacdecde It is composed in iambic meter. |
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See Sestina - Swinburne's Double, above.
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Rhyming pattern: ABccdbAB,
The "b" rhymes are all iambic trimeter, all other lines are feminine rhymes utilizing footless iambic tetrameter. Plus there is a trochaic version. |
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Unlimited number of quatrains, rhyming abbab, with
the first stanza repeated as closing refrain. Syllable 11/8/11/11/8.
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Twelve-line, twelve stanza form with a
six line envoi for the masochistic poet.
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A Filipino isosyllabic rhymed statzaic poem. 7/7/7/7
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Three sestets and a couple all in Alexandrine meter.
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Four quatrain stanzas,3 (2/3/3/12) + 2/3/3/4,, aaxx bbxx ccxx ddxx, Sponndee +
Dactyl + Free Verse created by L. Allen Bacon aka Allen A Dale
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a hexastich, a poem in 6 lines.
syllabic, 4-4-4-8-8-4 syllables per line. unrhymed. Composed with a refrain, L3 is repeated as L6. |
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It is syllabic 5/4/5 5/4/5 8/6
Rhyme pattern aba aba aa No meter is required. Invented by Amanda J. Norton |
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Chained rhyme aba bcb cdc ded d or aba bcb cdc ded dd ,
iambic pentameter optional, Line-length 11 syllables
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ABA' bCB cDc dED eFE fAFA', iambic pentameter, Exactly 19 Lines refrain,
rhymed, stanzaic
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5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10
syllables (total of 20).
If more than one verse must follow suit with an inverted syllable count. Tetractys can also be reversed and written 10, 4, 3, 2, 1. Ray Stebbing. |
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cinquains.
The patterns of the cinquains change from stanza to stanza. rhyme scheme Abcde edcba abcde edcbA. |
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A syllabic limerick without metric requirements
syllabic, lines of 8-6-4-4-6. rhyme xabba, xcddc etc. |
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a poem in 12 lines made up of 4 tercets.
syllabic, 6-7-10 per line. rhymed, rhyme scheme abc abc dec dec. |
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Syllabic,9/8/7/6/7/8/9/9,Stanzaic,rhymed,AabbccddccddaA*AA*,refrain,
Exactly 16 lines,meter optional,thematic,Alberto Jose Alvarez
Gonzalez
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Syllabic, 2/4/6/8/10/12/10/8/6/4/2, refrain, rhymed,
Created by VictoriaSutton
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The author provided no other
specifications than that the poem must consist of six or more tercets,
but in his sample poem the first two lines were shorter than the third.
Rhyme pattern aab ccb dde ffe ggh iif |
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The Tri-fall, created by Jan Turner,
consists three 6-line stanzas, for a total of 18 lines. Rhyme Scheme: abcabc Line-length for each stanza is as follows: 6/3/8/6/3/8. |
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This is a form with any number of
quatrains, usually written in iambic tetrameter.
All lines except the last are mono-rhymed. The last is a refrain, being the first four syllables of line one repeated. |
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3 nine line stanzas, refrain, rhymed ababccddc,
Syllabic 8/6/8/6/8/4/8/4/8, Created by Jan Turner |
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A tristitch, syllabic, 4/8/4, rhyming aba, using the
word "rose"
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a four stanza poem in which the
first stanza has four lines
and the last three stanzas have three lines each, with the first line of each repeating the respective line of the first stanza |
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Word count form of 3 or more 7 line stanzas
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line-length optional, meter optional, Only 8 lines, refrain,
rhymed ABaAabAB |
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Four three-line verses and one rhyming
couplet iambic tetrameter or iambic pentameter Each 3 line verse is an
unrhymed triplet 2 rhyme schemes: abc abc abc abc dd or abc cba abc cba dd
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The poem consists of Three 5-line stanzas
There are two styles,each having a triplet mono-rhyme. Version 1: aaaBB cccBB dddBB Version 2: aaBBB ccBBB ddBBB |
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syllabic
3/6/9/12/9/6/3 7 unrhymed lines
Always centered, Created by Shelly Cephas |
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"Jack and Jill Rhyme" (a-a)b(c-c)b
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3 verses,
5 lines each. Lines 3 and 4 of verse 1 (Refrain) repeat in verses 2
and 3. The syllable count for each stanza is 9, 7, 5, 3, 1 and has
an aaAAb rhyme scheme
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Lexical 10 lines 123 321 231 (123)
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It is
syllabic, each stanza being 10/10/6/5 syllables.
Rhymes: aabcbc, where the
b-rhymes are feminine.
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8/5/8/5 Trochee, anapest, abab, where a-rhymes
are feminine
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A syllable for of 3,6,9,12,12,9,6,3,
with two tercets and a couplet. It is thematic with last line
being the title.
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Trolaan, created by Valerie
Peterson Brown,
is a poem consisting of 4 quatrains. Each quatrain begins with the same letter. The rhyme scheme is abab. |
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Four or five tercet stanzas
with independent mono-rhyme.
There is no line-length or meter requirement. The defining requirement of the form is that some part of each of the first two lines be "twisted" together in forming the third stanza line which MUST INCLUDE INTERNAL RHYME. |
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4 lines of 2 syllables each (descriptive) incorporated into
2 lines of 9 syllables each.
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stanzaic, written in no more than 3 sixains.
syllabic, 10-6-10-6-10-10 syllalbes per line. rhymed ababcc dededeff ghghghii. |
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In free verse style
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The Vignette is also the name of a
syllabic invented verse form introduced by Fozari Rockwood found in
Pathways for the Poet by Viola Berg 1977
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Dual Refrain AbA' abA abA' abA abA' abAA'
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A Villonnet is a hybrid of
the Villanelle and the Sonnet. It has the Iambic Pentameter of both, but
holds the four-stanza/line structure of the sonnet, while utilizing the
two-line rhyme nature of the villanelle. The final stanza replaces the sonnet
couplet with a typical villanelle tercet.
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stanzaic, written in any number of
quatrains.
syllabic, 6-6-6-4 syllables per line. rhymed, feminine rhyme used aaab cccb dddb |
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19 line syllabic poem
Pattern: 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1 |
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Seven line poem
Syllable Pattern: 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 7 |
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A refrain form consisting of a minimum of two sestets
Rhyme scheme ababcC. Meter and line length optional. |
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It is stanzaic, consisting of any number of octains.
It is syllabic 10/10/6/10/10/10/10/10 It is metric, using iambic meter. It is rhymed, the pattern being: abccbadd |
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Created by Jan Turner, consists of 2 or more stanzas of 6 lines each;
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Syllabic: 14, 14, 8, 8, 8, 8, 14, 14
Rhyme Scheme: a,a,b,b,c,c,d,d. Created by Jan Turner |
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Every line is linked to the line preceding it a word or
by derivation of a word in the preceding line or by a homonym
of that word, or apparently by a derivative of a
false rhyme of that word.
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Syllabic, staircase rhyme left and right, not topical, Lawrencealot
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A syllabic poem of 12 lines, largely iambic pentameter.
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syllabic,
8-8-8-8 6-6-6-6 4-4-4-4 2-4-6-8 syllables per line.
rhymed, Abab cdcd efef gagA. Multiple internal refrains
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The overall rhyming scheme for the poem is aaa/bbba/ccca/ddda/.
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A two line poem, each line with a caesura composed of a double space.
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