Chaucerian Roundel

Chaucerian Roundel

The Chaucerian roundel was developed by (obviously) Chaucer from (less obviously) the rondel rather than the roundel - not that there's a huge amount of difference.  This example is dedicated to the Athenian gentleman who, in an e-mail, described my website as a "labor of love" (yes, it was Athens, Georgia).

Ambition

I'd like to do this all the time.
It doesn't pay, but I confess
I love my day job rather less.

I'm tiring of the search for rhyme
And reason in life's heaving mess.
I'd like to do this all the time.

A poet's life must be sublime.
Those lucky few the gods would bless
Breathe only poetry. Oh yes,
I'd like to do this all the time.

As with the rondel etc, there is a refrain, the first line being repeated at the end of the second and third stanzas. The rhyming scheme is Abb; abA; abbA, where the capital A's denote the repetition of entire lines. No particular line length or metre is required.

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My Thanks to Bob Newman for the wonderful resources at Volecentral.

The Chaucerian Roundel is closer to the French Rondel than the English Roundel. It is named for its originator Geoffrey Chaucer who has been said to write his Knight's tale in the roundel, the rondel and the rondeau (take your pick). This verse form was found at Vol Central

The Chaucerian Roundel is:

• 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.
• composed with a refrain; L1 is repeated as a refrain in L6 and L10.

Pasted from <http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?/topic/667-chaucerian-roundel/>

My Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful resource at PMO.

My Example Poem

Could Be     (Chaucerian Roundel)

Could be our troubles are a state of mind,

could be that they're imposed and very real,

like acts of God that man cannot appeal.

But social troubles I suspect you'll find

depend to great extent on how you feel,

could be our troubles are a state of mind.

If one decides to leave ones woes behind

and acts accordingly with honest zeal

he'll find that other's slights are no big deal;

could be our troubles are a state of mind.

© Lawrencealot - February 12, 2014

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(note: although line length and meter are not required,

  this is set up for iambic pentameter)

Decrina

Decrina

Type:	Structure, End Word Requirement, Isosyllabic
Description:	10-keyword version of a sestina for 105 lines.
Attributed to:	Bob Newman
Origin:	England
Schematic:	End-word enfolding pattern: 0123456789 1357902468 3704815926 7419630852 4938271605 9876543210 8642097531 6295184073 2580369147 5061728394
Rhythm/Stanza Length:	10
Line/Poem Length:	105

Pasted from http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/005/530.shtml

A big thanks to Bob Newman.

• Decrina is a longer version of the Sestina attributed to Bob Neuman but I couldn't find it at his website Poetry By Way. I did find it at Poetry Basehowever. Having written a Sestina, I can't imagine why anyone would even consider attempting a longer version of the form.
  
  The Decrina is:
• stanzaic, ten 10 line stanzas with a 5 line envoy, a total of 105 lines.
• metered, lines of equal length, like the Sestina, iambic pentameter or iambic tetrameter.
• repeated end words in a specific pattern. (Numbers represent words)
  0123456789
  1357902468
  3704815926
  7419630852
  4938271605
  9876543210
  8642097531
  6295184073
  2580369147
  5061728394
  
  I can only assume the envoy is like the Sestina with even #ed words midline and odd #ed words as end words. 0-9,8-7,6-5,4-3,2-1

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A big thanks to Judi Van Gorder

My Example Poem

Non-Compliant (Decrina)

Catherine born of Spanish royalty
was destined from her crib to be a queen.
Fredinand and Isabel ruled people
of Aragon, Leon and Castile, all
with an unquestioned linage their daughter
would inherit with devotion to God
through Catholicism that never wavered.
At age of three a treaty pledged the crown
of English queen would be reserved forher,
she spent her youth preparing for that time.

She was to wed Arthur and become queen
when he ascended the throne but all
was modified, first by the acts of God
Then by the machinations of the crown.
Henry the seventh wanted at one time
to wed her to enhance his royalty
That would never help the Spanish people
or King; there'd be no role for his daughter,
in kingdom's design; he never wavered
for Ferdinand expected much from her.

She was Princess of  Wales and loved by all
before young Arthur died.  She had no crown
and now was no part of the royalty.
A treaty next pledged Ferdinand's daughter,
to Arthur's brother, Henry who liked her
and who when his father died made her queen
immediately, now assured by God
and Pope, that Catherine was at that time
still virgin. Still embraced by the people
who in their respect had never wavered.

When Henry the eighth put upon the crown
he relished the insights of the daughter,
of the King of Spain, her input as queen
conjoined the countries int'rests for a time
but the queens love for Henry n'er wavered.
Their first years, a romantic time for all,
and they elevated the royalty
to a source of pride.  Henry trusted her
advice counsel and shared her love of God.
The kings court improved things for the people.

The queens first child was a still-born daughter,
a year later she birthed a son, this time
alive but he died soon after.  In all,
she bore six children- all of them but her
fifth, Mary, died to the grief of people
now hoping for an heir.  To keep the crown
safe was deemed the prime duty of the queen.
The king's interest in his wife wavered,
and in search of continued royalty
he bedded many not consulting God.

Despite that, he shared power for a time
and while Henry fought in France it was her
direct leadership that won for the crown
more important campaigns; the troops wavered
not one bit with her and her faith in God.
It was three years later that her daughter,
Mary was born and lived; she focused all
That she did thereafter to give people
That her daughter might someday be queen.
She fought to preserve Mary's royalty

When Henry's mistress, Bessie Blont had her
son, he was deemed a prince. he King wavered
then in his devotion to his daughter.
The queen had always wanted the people
to have the schooling there for royalty
and strengthened women's options over time
and educated Mary for the crown.
She always placed her faith in her one God.
So while she lived she worked and gave her all
that her own daughter, Mary might be queen.

Wanting Anne Boleyn, he never wavered
after demanding a divorce. People
hated, and taunted Anne at any time
she would appear in public so  both God
and man seemed to be aligned with the queen.
Thus the King denounced his faith to wed her
and changed the religious world his daughter,
would face with rage in her own royalty.
Now God, and man must answer to the crown.
Catherine loved King Henry through it all.

With royal supremacy the law, people
had to abandon now their Catholic God
and accept the Church of England but her
majesty refused. Stripped of royalty
And power by the announced divorce, all
hope seemed gone, yet she sill never wavered.
She refused inciting war at that time
though there was talk of war to save the queen.
She was not allowed to see her daughter.
Visitors required assent by the crown.

In lesser castles she still beseeched God
and behaved with apparent royalty.
Her support of Mary never wavered
though some were killed for thinking as the queen,
that Mary ought to someday wear the crown.
The winds of change ignore simple people
but history's cyclone paid heed to her.
I'm not a fan of religion at all;
in tolerance the harvest all the time,
to wit: Bloody Mary, the queen, her daughter.

Despite the royalty of Henry's time
revoking her claim to possess the crown
she never wavered for that sake of God
and for her daughter, Mary, through it all
the English people always deemed her queen.

© Lawrencealot - December 30, 2013

Related forms: Bina, Tritina, Quartina, Quintina, Sestina, Newman Sestina, Sidney's Double Sestina, Decrina, and Canzone.

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Rubai - Rubaiyat - Interlocking Rubaiyat

Rubāʿī" (رباعي) is a poetry style, the Arabic term for "quatrain". It is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or its derivative form in English and other languages. The plural form of the word, rubāʿiyāt (رباعیات ), often anglicised rubaiyat, is used to describe a collection of such quatrains.[1]

There are a number of possible rhyme schemes to the rubaiyat form, e.g. AABA, AAAA.[2] In Persian verse, a ruba'i visually contains only four lines, its rhyme falling at the middle and end of the lines.

The verse form AABA as used in English verse is known as the Rubaiyat Quatrain due to its use by Edward FitzGerald in his famous 1859 translation, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Algernon Charles Swinburne, one of the first admirers of FitzGerald's translation of Khayyam'smedieval Persian verses, was the first to imitate the stanza form, which subsequently became popular and was used widely, as in the case of Robert Frost's 1922 poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

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A single quatrain is a Rubai, several together are a Rubaiyat, linked by the stanza's un-rhyming line they become an Interlocking Rubaiyat

Interlocking Rubaiyat

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
Description:	A rubaiyat with interlocking rhyme. Quatrains composed of decasyllabic lines with rhyme scheme aaba bbcb ccdc ... zzaz.
Attributed to:	Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami
Origin:	Persian
Schematic:	A three stanza interlocking rubaiyat would be: xxxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxxb xxxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxxb xxxxxxxxxb xxxxxxxxxc xxxxxxxxxb xxxxxxxxxc xxxxxxxxxc xxxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxxc

Pasted from <http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/001/150.shtml>

My thanks to Ron Newman at Volecentral for this information, his site is a wonderful resource.

Example Poem

Free Agent  (Rubaiyat)

Testosterone Tom was a monstrous man

raised in the arctic where caribou ran.

When he ate there weren't left-overs;  Tom had

never heard of baseball, bagels, or flan.

Like a fish to an aquarium  sent,

or a monkey to a zoo, our Tom spent

his first weeks in Maine looking for control.

Slowly festering smarts would now augment.

Tom learned of the NFL, why quibble.

For this quest he had no need to dribble.

For his size there was no counter-balance,

We'll not divulge teams taking a nibble.

     © Lawrencealot - December 29, 2012

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Sonnetina Cinque

SONNETINA CINQUE
1. This form comprises of two cinquains.
2. There is no set meter or rhyme scheme, though iambic pentameter or tetrameter is common.
I HAVE SEEN THIS POSTULATED:
 iambic tetrameter, rhyme scheme aabba OR abbaa
3. The first cinquain gives a statement or sets up a question.
The second cinquain provides a counterpoint to that statement or answers the question.



Example Poem


Maybe   (Sonnetina Cinque)

A gentleman must always know
A "maybe" spoken by his date
means actions planned "might" have to wait.
While "yes" is clear and signals " go,
"Maybe" seems meaning "yes,but slow."

She needs some help and time to think
which will be moot if you inspire
emotionally ignited fire.
A "maybe's" changed with just a wink
and kisses helped along with drink.

© Lawrencealot - January 6, 2013

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Sonnetina Quatro

SONNETINA QUATRO

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

Example Poem:

Then the Dog Ran Off    (Sonnetina Quatro)

I taught my dog to drive my truck 

so I could ride and play guitar. 

When I get drunk I'm still in luck, 

He drives home from the country bar. 

A trooper stopped us.  That did suck; 

We were not going very far. 

The truck's impounded.  I'm in jail, 

A license I forgot to get. 

Yes, it's a sad and sorry tale. 

My license won't work for my pet. 

 © Lawrencealot - January 5, 2012

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