Long Octave

Long Octave

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
Description:	An octave of iambic tetrameter with rhyme scheme abcbabcb.
Schematic:	Line rhythm: xX xX xX xX Rhyme scheme: abcbabcb
Rhythm/Stanza Length:	8
See Also:	Common Measure, Common Octave, Long Measure, Octave
Status:	Incomplete

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My thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for his fine Poetrybase resource.

Example poem

Recruiting      (Long Octave)

When Maude and I were at the park

just chatting calmly on a bench,

two half-dressed trollops happened by

(I think perhaps that they were French),

it wasn't close to getting dark.

They asked, "We've many thirsts to quench.

and one's a friendly older guy;

would you take care of him by chance?"

© Lawrencealot - April 21, 2014

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Duo-rhyme

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 monorhyme scheme.

Meter: 8 beats per line, written in iambic tetrameter (4 linear feet of iambic) Rhyme Scheme: 10-line:a,a,b,b,b,b,b,b,a,a and 12-line: a,a,b,b,b,b,b,b,b,b,a,a

Example #1:

Paper Moon

A yellow, paper midnight moon,
the kind that makes young lovers swoon,
        casts moonbeams on her golden hair.
        Soft wind caresses, not to scare
        red, blushing cheeks of maiden, fair.
        A scent of lilacs fills the air.
        In magic garden - would she dare
        unleash her passions without care?
Unusual, the moan and croon
of wind and August, paper moon.

Copyright © 2007 Mary L. Ports

Example #2:

Visitation

Oh, midnight wind with whisperings,
come tease sweet fairy’s crystal wings.
        How gracefully she floats tonight
        with purple billows flowing bright.
        Dear, wistful spirit in the night,
        through starlit mist she casts her light.
        For welcomed cheek, a kiss just right
        is softly placed so that one might
        receive her blessings without fright;
        love’s beauty sought, a soul’s delight.
To realms of wonder in my dreams
I’ll float upon the songs she sings.

Copyright © 2007 Mary L. Ports

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Monotetra

The monotetra is a new poetic form developed by Michael Walker. 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.

Stanza Structure:

Line 1: 8 syllables; A1

Line 2: 8 syllables; A2

Line 3: 8 syllables; A3

Line 4: 4 syllables, repeated; A4, A4 

Example Poem

Collaboration     ( Monotetra)

My gramp brought me a valentine.

To give to mommy and it's just fine.

I'm four years old and it's all mine.

A valentine. A valentine.

It's got a heart and teddy bear

To show my mom how much I care.

A tiny voice came from nowhere,

"I've got no flair." "I've got no flair."

Somehow that card said words to me.

"I'm not as fine as I can be.

I need more personality"

that she can see, that she can see."

"With your help lad, I'll be much more.

I'll be a card that she'll adore."

I'll not be common anymore!

Accept this chore.  Accept this chore."

With a crayon I wrote just "my"

after "Mom".   She is my own, that's why.

I signed Tommy then heard card sigh.

I don't know why, I don't know why.

The card she's kept for all this time.

A priceless card that cost a dime.

Mom says I made the value climb

with my first rhyme, with my first rhyme.

© Lawrencealot - February 9, 2013

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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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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

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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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Rondine

The Rondine is:
 a poem in 12 lines made up of a quatrain, a tercet and ending in a quintet.
 syllabic 8 syllables per line except L7 and L12 which are 4 syllbles each.
 In English metered, most often iambic tetrameter except the refrain which is iambic dimeter.
 composed with a refrain repeated from the opening phrase of the poem, rentrement.
 rhymed, using only 2 rhymes except for the refrain being unrhymed,
 rhyme scheme abba,aabR, abbaR (R being the refrain)
NOTE: The rhyme may be sight rhyme, slant rhyme, or assonance
ALSO NOTE:  This form found frequently WITH MORE that EIGHT Syllable
As in the example below.
http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1382>

 This is another very neglected and a very challenging poetry form. It consists of two stanzas, a septet (7 lines), and a quintet (5 lines), making the poem a total of 12 lines.There is a refrain which mimics the first phrase of the first line. R.
The Rondine has a rhyme scheme of,
(R a). b. b. a. a. b. R....a. b. b. a. R.
The meter is open with the French style and not bound by a rhyming pattern and is a more light and buoyant even "flashy" form of poetry which uses short lines, whereas the English is more formal and uses Tetrameter or Pentameter.
Here is an example by Wesli Court.
http://thepoetsgarret.com/2009Challenge/form9.html>

Example Poem

Here's my Rondine, my very first .
With practice I'll get better yet.
There is not much I should forget.
The rhymes are decently dispersed.
Find five alike, then dive headfirst.
Now have I, your interest whet?
Here's my Rondine.

Choose words so refrain's not coerced.
It ties the poem don't forget,
from start to end refrain's abet
a singularity well versed.
Here's my Rondine.

(c) Lawrencealot - August 16, 2012




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Short Measure

Meter: Iambic trimeter, EXCEPT line three which is iambic tetrameter

Short Measure or Short Meter, is:

• stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains. When written in octaves doubling the short measure quatrains, the verse form is called Double Short Measure.
• metered, most often L1, L2, L4 iambic trimeter, L3 is iambic tetrameter.
• rhymed, Rhyme scheme xaxa xbxb etc x being unrhymed.
• called Poulter's Measure when consolidated into 2 lines.

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Example Poem

Audition      (Short Measure)

  

The teacher greeted her,

the girl with hair in bun.

She wrote his lectures in a book,

as though his words were fun.

At work she did her job,

and filled the bosses cup.

Her brightness and congenial help

seemed never to let up.

In church she sat with legs

so primly crossed, and hands

reclining folded in her lap,

decorum church demands.

With me she is alive

and dresses to entice.

She shows some cleavage and some thigh,

The both of which are nice.

I'm looking seriously.

and want not just a tart.

her looks had hooked and reeled me in,

her mind got her the part.

   © Lawrencealot - January  6, 2013

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Sonnetina Tre

SONNETINA TRE

1. The form is created from three stanzas.

 These consist of two quatrains and one couplet.

2. The normal structure has the two quatrains first followed by

a concluding couplet. 

Variations on this include the mini-Dorn (see Dorn sonnet)

structure which has the  couplet in the middle, 

it is also possible to begin with the couplet.

3. There is no set meter or rhyme scheme, 

though iambic pentameter or tetrameter is quite usual.

Rhyme Scheme: abab ccde de or abba dd deed

Example Poem

Girswold Fuzzy Longbottom  (Sonnetina tre)

I've never owned a Yorkie pup you see,

That breed has always been the owner here.

Though Griz is second such to live with me,

He makes it clear to other pets that dear

grandpa is his toy.  When I am not home

my wife can have his love.  He'll sit or lay

most quietly with her; submit to comb

and bath.  When I'm around he wants to play.

He never comes to me without his ball

for that's his favorite dog game of all.

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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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Sparrowlet

SPARROWLET - Invented by Katharine Sparrow
The meter is iambic tetrameter.
It is a sestet - a poem with 6 lines.
The first half and the second half of line 1
make up a refrain which is switched on the last line.

The rhyming is indicated by the characters below.

XXXA XXXB
xxxxxxxb
xxxxxxxa
xxxxxxxb
xxxxxxxa
XXXB XXXA

Example Poem

Practice the Smile

Practice the smile; get the smile right.

I'm Hollywood bound--that's alright!

A dog-food commercial for trial.

But I want movies that have bite,

a film career to last a while.

Get the smile right.  Practice the smile;

No RinTinTin, No dog Lassie.

No commercials! Me, I'm sassy.

I'll do Nicholson, with chagrin

or Jim Carey, somewhat classy.

A leading hound will star again.

No dog Lassie.  No RinTinTin.

© Lawrencealot - April 26, 2012

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