Memento

Themed:          about a holiday or anniversary.

Stanzaic:          sestet consisting of two tercets

Syllabic:            8/6/2/8/6/2

Rhymed:           abcabc

Source quoted:

Memento, created by Emily Romano is a poem about a holiday or an anniversary, consisting of two stanzas as follows: the syllable count should be 8 beats for line one; 6 beats for line two; and two beats for line three. This is repeated twice for each stanza. The rhyme scheme is: a/b/c/a/b/c for each of the two stanzas.

Example #1:

Sky Flowers

Circumference unlimited

As flowers in the sky

Expand;

We stand in awe, inhibited,

As bright explosives fly

From land.

July wears flowers in the sky

Spreading above the town

In flight;

We stand in awe, ready to cry

Aloud as they resound

This night.

Copyright © 2007 Emily Romano

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/memento.html

My Example Attempt

This Night     (Memento)

The faces of the children glow

expecting old Saint Nick

this night,

with wonder only children know

and hoping to sleep quick

tonight.

© Lawrencealot -December 4,2013

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Italian Sestet

Italian Sestet

The original version of the Italian Sestet had no set meter, 

but after it was introduced into England by Spenser, 

eventually the poets there began to use iambic tetrameter 

or pentameter. The rhyme pattern example is as follows (Using iambic tetrameter)

x x x x x x x a

x x x x x x x b

x x x x x x x c

x x x x x x x a

x x x x x x x b

x x x x x x x c

Pasted from <http://thepoetsgarret.com/2010Challenge/form11.html> 

Example Poem

Let's Write an Italian Sestet

An Italian Sestet we're to write. 

da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM. 

Use Tetrameter- (four fine feet). 

Delay the rhyme that makes it right. 

There're only two more rhymes to come 

then we are done.  Now ain't that sweet? 

© Lawrencealot - July 25, 2012

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Tri-Fall

Tri-fall                                                                

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.          

Meter optional

                                                

This form requires little to no punctuation and can be written on any subject matter.     

Example Poem

  Surrender

Her passion was too much.

Now it's gone.

She condemned, deplored all abuse.

She praised the thrill of touch.

We'll bear on.

The jealous piled on, no excuse.

Her life was filled with hurt.

despite that,

or because of it, she performed

as an erotic flirt.

When at-bat

she homered passion unreformed.

Some men became aroused,

not content

to live within her fantasies,

and when requests were doused

time was spent

in fighting her apostasies.

© Lawrencealot - Aug 23, 2012    

Written about a very real AP Poet.

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