Chandlerian

This form was invented in 2005 by B_Chandler on AP.

I found it on PoetryMagnusOpus listed as "Chandler's Sonnet, with the caveat that it 

• The Chandler Sonnet is an invented verse form introduced by B Chandler that although it is called a sonnet, has nothing in common with thesonnet form.
  The Chandler Sonnet is:
• a poem in 22 lines, written in 3 quatrains, an octave and a couplet in that order.
• syllabic, the first 3 quatrains are dodecasyllabic, the quatrain is hendecasyllabic and the couplet is heptasyllabic lines.
• rhymed, turned on only 4 rhymes, abab baba abab cdccdcdd ee.

Pasted from <http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=2253>

My thanks to Judi Van Gorder of PMO, one of the hardest working site administrators on the web.  A wonderful resource.

I have chosen to give the form the Original name the creator applied, even though in her

description she called it "The Chandler Sonnet"..  I am already catching enough flax for finding so many non-complying sonnet forms.  

Example Poem

Instinct     (Chandelarian)

Instinctively the spider knows he has to build.

A DNA encoded knowledge, never taught

enables his performance, diligent and skilled.

His mommy never taught him though you think she ought.

To teach this task in college would require a lot,

and grant you membership in an especial guild.

Geometry and Physics, rules of Mandelbrot,

and Chemistry and math would be the skills they sought.

Our spider weaves his web without a second thought,

then finds it rendered useless by the moist air chilled

by nature's nocturnal show's ever changing plot.

The web will dry and work, or else he will rebuild.

Discontent with other's actions can occur

in daily functions even when we're trying

to co-operate- attempting to defer,

and misspoken words are taken as a slur.

This happens even when you are complying

and we don't always comply, that is for sure.

If mates can touch the care that's underlying

as by instinct they'll find their love undying.

My wife's patient as a saint

that's so, even though I ain't.

© Lawremcealot - Novemeber 20, 2013

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This template uses beginning Anapest for "c" rhymes

poet may choose any meter for either rhyme

Butterfly Quintet

This is a Butterfly Quintet created by Amanda Jean Norton

Stanza 1 is Iambic Pentameter rhyming abcbd

Stanza 2 is Iambic Tetrameter rhyming effe

Stanza 3 has 2 lines of Iambic Trimeter, Enveloped by 2 lines of Iambic Pentameter

The rhyming words are the same words in each set EGGE

Stanza 4 is Iambic Tetrameter rhyming hiih

Stanza 5 is Iambic Pentameter rhyming abcbd

Example Poem

Write a Butterfly Quintet

To write a Butterfly Quintet my pet

you place complex content in stanza one.

There's room internally to romp with rhyme

or sprinkle sparks of alliteration.

The same thing goes, by jive in stanza five.

In middle stanzas do your play.

These step more quickly, I believe;

less time to ponder, think or grieve.

First line next stanza have you say!

Expound your thesis here-- it's quite okay.

Exclaim your point right now.

Make emphasis some how.

The repeated words for that deed are okay.

Now butterfly, just flutter by.

Just play and give the air some shoves--

enjoyed wherever there are loves.

You light their hearts up butterfly.

Here the conclusion you'd most likely set,

with evidence supporting, now begun.

If playful theme there's still a  lot of time

To zig and zag, and twist the plot for fun.

Your muse can use this form to come alive.

© Lawrencealot  - July 2, 2012

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Chain of Abolition

“Chain of Abolition” Poetry Form
Invented by Natydel of Allpoetry.com

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

There is no meter requirement.
It is required that there be a line between stanzas.


Example Poem

Flying Out of Singapore

 {a parody of signing off, forevermore}

inticing eyes
a curvaceous view
glossy lips, inviting
me to ravage you once more;

intimate
does member rise,
wanting inside you
lack of thought is fright'ning
Can you take it just once more?

kiss me!
speculate
about its size--
just as though it's new
a kiss so exciting
I'd not take you for a whore.

hush-
I see
delicate
smooth silky thighs,
moist tastes to pursue
curves with pleasure writhing;
then we're through forevermore-

(c) Lawrencealot - Sept 12, 2012

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Cheyenelle

Cheyenelle

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

5:35 PM

This form was invented by Silent_Cougar and it's structure honors native American Heritage.

The Cheyenelle follow the ‘circle of life’, and that all life is connected.

The words creating their own circle, forming the connection in the closing stanza.

Free Verse Format

The title must relate to the poem, but also adjoin

 the opening single line creating a rhyming couplet.

The first line and stanza are trimeter (two syllable feet)

The next three stanzas are tetrameter,

and the final unspecified, (depending upon word syllable)

The following four stanza then become the creation of the final fifth stanza,

where each lines final word builds into the lines of the fifth stanza.

which holds only four words per line.

The fifth stanza must also read as a stand alone poem.

This form results in automatic internal rhyme in the closing stanza.

The FOLLOWING are the specifications for the Rhymed Version.

Rhyme scheme:

a

a

bcbc

dede

fcfc

hehe

cece

The opening line and first stanza are 6 syllables

Stanza two is 7 syllables

Stanza three is 8 syllables

Stanza four is 9 Syllables

Stanza five is undefined.

Example Poem

We Are All Brothers  (Cheyenelle)

From different mothers

Indeed we all do come.

We can all get along

If when we meet we hum

a tune or sing a song.

Tribal chants - many voices

recognizing all are swayed

by Earth's gifts - that our choices

hinge on those others have made.

DNA has proven and we'll

all soon know that we all belong

to a common tribe and can feel

at home on earth with kinship strong.

Once all people know they are mankind's

blood-brother all will join the parade

which will find humanity enshrined

at peace with earth and quite unafraid.

Come along hum a song.

Voices swayed choices made.

We all belong; feel strong

mankind's parade, enshrined, unafraid.

(c) Lawrencealot - Sept 28, 2012

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Guzzanele

This is a modern form created by mixing a Ghazal with a Villanelle.

Form Type: Syllabic
Origins: American
Creator: Thomas Rodes
Number of Lines: 22
Rhyme Scheme: A1+r,b,A2+r - a+r,b,A1+r - a+r,b,A2+r - a+r,b,A1+r - a+r,b,A2+r - a+r,b,A1+r,A2+r
Meter: Undefined


Rules

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.
4. The 'a' rhyming lines all have the same refrain following after the rhyme.
5. Each stanza may enjamb within itself but must be a complete unit in itself, there is no enjambing across stanzas.
6. Each stanza should be free standing they don't need other sense to be a complete meaning unit. There doesn't need to be a linkage between stanzas.


Example Poem

Real Help Possible      (Guzzanelle)

Have humankind become concerned too late.

Are legates from the stars our only hope?

Have our sentient cousins returned too late.

If violence wins, then we have earned our fate?

Have we played out our ecologic rope?

Have humankind become concerned too late.

The recondite crop marks unlearned folks hate

are verified as messages of hope.

Have our sentient cousins returned too late.

Symbolic mathematics discerned of late

that human's self-hate carved a slippery slope.

Have humankind become concerned too late.

Some hate the Toran and some spurn the Pope.

In all fields of dogma, men only grope.

Have our sentient cousins returned too late.

We may leave fossil fuels unburned yet sate

our needs expanding in desire and scope.

Have humankind become concerned too late.

A profusion of wealth unturned awaits;

What man knows now is subpar, but we'll cope.

Have humankind become concerned too late.

Have our sentient cousins returned too late.

© Lawrencealot - February 15, 2013

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Lauranelle

A poetic form created by Laura Lamarca,
The Lauranelle - is 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.

 Lines MUST be 10 syllables in length and also MUST be in iambic pentameter.

Rhyme scheme is as follows:

A1bA2 bcb cdc ded efe fbf ggA1A2

Poems can either be formatted in stanzas or as a whole piece without line-spacing.

Example Poem

A Little Uncertainty Goes a Long Way (Lauranelle)

When we without a doubt accept as real
what we are told is settled fact about
most anything- we are enchained by zeal.

When pulpiteer delivers truth with clout
conditions favor comfort if you choose
a certain truth you need not think about.

Illusions pleasant though they be to use
as guideposts do not come without their cost.
Bestowed, our reason seems not just to lose.

No fact of science has proved settled long,
religion not at all.  That we don't know
conditions maybe right- but maybe wrong

do not excuse intransigence in thought.
Mere beliefs deemed a truth worthy of war.
Absurd!  Is bellicosity now sought?

One outcome zeal promotes is hate.  The door
to human peace is open if all shout,
"Wait-- I may be wrong Let us think some more."

What one thinks is so simply may not be.
We may kill men for an absurdity.
When we without a doubt accept as real
most anything- we are enchained by zeal.

(c) Lawrencealot - June 27, 2012




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