Miniature

• Miniature is a verse form that is a kind of contradiction of syllabic and metric form. All but 2 lines, begin and end on stressed syllables which would imply catelectic trochaic meter. It also has an unusual feature of requiring the 5th syllable of the 1st line be rhymed with the 1st syllable of the 2nd line, it was created by Margaret Ball Dickson.
  
  The Miniature is:
• a decastich, a poem in 10 lines.
• 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.
• composed with the 5th syllable of L1, rhymed with the 1st syllable of L2

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My example poem

Mission Statement    (Miniature)

Moons unlike the moon of earth

soon will be our fare.

Ships exceeding speed of light

Will propel us there.

Men from earth will colonize

planets fit for living

We'll find other beings there

giving gifts worth giving.

Know that as our skills increase

So do hopes we'll spread but peace.

© Lawrencealot - April 3, 2014

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Rishal

This is a Stanzaic, Refrain form created by an Australian poet writing as  Chindarella on Allpoetry.com.

Stanzaic:             Four or more tercet stanzas plus a single line stanza

Isosyllabic:          Decastich lines  (10 syllables)

Rhyme Pattern:   aba cdc efe ghg x (end-rhyme and internal rhyme)

Refrain:              The first line of each stanza consists of two

                          five syllable sections, The last section of line 1

                          becomes the first section of line 1 in the next stanza.

The 2nd line in each stanza must have internal rhyme with the 5th syllable

rhyming with the 10th.

The final line does not need to rhyme;

Example Poem

Intermission

We all are forewarned, no one is surprised.

Though death awaits all, we all may ride tall.

We can't write death out; script can't be revised.

No one is surprised that our days will end

By some grand design, while most parts are fine

there are no clues that Death's presence portend.

That our days will end, all but children know.

How poor we'd be served if fear were deserved.

Such in not the case, play, love, give, then go.

All but children know our curtain shall fall.

Readied all your life, by faith, friends, and wife,

by, works of hand and mind and love for all.

Our curtain shall fall for intermission.

(c) Lawrencealot -April 29, 2013

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Decquain

The Decuain (pronounced deck•won), created by Shelley A. Cephas,
is a short poem made up of 10 lines, which can be written on any subject.
There are 10 syllables per line and the poem is
written in iambic pentameter.
There are 3 set choices of rhyme scheme:
ababbcbcaa, ababbcbcbb, or ababbcbccc
For a longer Decuain poem, add more stanzas for a double, triple, quatruple, etc. Decuain.


Example Poem

Leap to Lancelot 

They thought they had me trapped-- the silly fools.

But I'm an acrobat and dive with skill.

I do double twists into tiny pools.

I'll foil their evil plans to rape and kill.

After a safe dive, which will be a thrill,

I' ll be saved by Sir Lancelot by skiff.

He's promised so I know he surely will.

His little boat was hidden by the cliff.

No maiden fair (and that does describe me,)

will Lancelot allow be lost at sea.

(c) Lawrencealot - April 18,2012

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Rishal

A poetry form created by Chindarella consising of four or more 3-line stanzas and a single concluding line.  Each line has 10 syllables. The first line of each stanza is divided into two 5-syllable parts.

No specific meter is required.

In each stanza the first line begins with the second part of the first line from the previous stanza.

The rhyme scheme is aba cdc efe ghg ... x.

The 2nd line in each stanza must have internal rhyme with the 5th syllable

rhyming with the 10th.

( I would presume that poets who opt for iambic or trochaic meter, may adjust

the line segments and interal rhyme syllable accordingly)

The final line does not need to rhyme;

it also begins with the second part of the preceding first line.

Example Poem

Intermission

We all are forewarned, no one is surprised.

Though death awaits all, we all may ride tall.

We can't write death out; script can't be revised.

No one is surprised that our days will end

By some grand design, while most parts are fine

there are no clues that Death's presence portend.

That our days will end, all but children know.

How poor we'd be served if fear were deserved.

Such in not the case, play, love, give, then go.

All but children know our curtain shall fall.

Readied all your life, by faith, friends, and wife,

by, works of hand and mind and love for all.

Our curtain shall fall for intermission.

(c) Lawrencealot -April 29, 2013

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Sonnatina Due

SONNETIAN DUE  Five couplets

Rhyme Scheme: aabbccddee

Usually Iambic tetrameter or petrameter

Example Poem

Order UP (Sonnetina Due)

When hatched then orphaned what's the fix?

What do they do with baby chicks

They're sent to Foster Farms I guess.

Bad joke here kid, I must confess.

I wonder what you might think worst,

To go as egg or get fat first?

I'd say the egg is insensate-

and chicken feed is not that great.

So Jimmy's fate is not so bad.

Serve me with toast and I'll be glad.

 © Lawrencealot - July 27, 2012

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Sonnetina Uno

SONNETINA UNO

A ten line poem

Requires: IAMBIC PENTAMER using BLANK VERSE

Example Poem

Interlude (Sonnetina Uno)

The winter settled down, it's artwork done, 

The thermometer dropped stopping the snow 

and holding for us still-life clearly cast. 

The roads were all cleared; a recess was called 

for visitors to take pictures to share. 

A suspension of time, deferring spring, 

with frigid heart-warming inversion felt 

as still air-motionless, and mutely crisp. 

While not every year is such a scene seen, 

these days are treasures wrought for memory's sake. 

© Lawrencealot - January 4, 2013

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