Scallop

• The Scallop is an invented stanzaic form written in sixains. It was created by Marie L Blanche Adams.
  
  The Scallop is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of sixains.
• syllabic, 2-4-6-6-4-2 syllables per line.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme abccba deffed ghiihg etc.

Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1882#baccresiez

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

My example poem

What Need for Rhyme    (Scallop)

What need

have you for rhyme?

Is there a purpose served,

are rhyming words deserved

all of the time?

Indeed!

If I

should someday choose

to forego rhyming verse

my spirit would be worse

and I would lose,

so why?

© Lawrencealot -  April 4, 2014

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Logolilt

• The Logolilt is an invented verse form that features diminishing line length. It was created by Flozari Rockwood.
  
  The Logolilt is:
• stanzaic written in any number of sixains made up of 2 tercets each.
• syllabic, 8-4-2-8-4-2 8-4-2-8-4-2.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme aabccb ddeffe.

Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1882#baccresiez

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

My Example

I Taught My Grandkid, Too (Logolilt)

I frequently find I must dunk

a yummy chunk

into

my hot chocolate or coffee-

that's just like me.

Do You?

© Lawrencealot - April 1, 2014

Sestalena

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Form: Sestalena

Invented by: Caroline Ann Gordon on Allpoetry

syllabic  6/8/8/6/8/6

rhyme    a  b b a  b a

Length 6 lines

a Lines Iambic Trimeter

b Lines Iambic Tetrameter 

Pasted from <http://allpoetry.com/list/541485-Sestalena>

Example Poem

Apprenticeship     (Sestalena)

I found that gasoline

is not accelerant preferred

for burning work-site junk.  A nerd,

they let me learn just fine,

The boom! The bounce! I looked absurd.

The blast turned out benign.

Construction guys have fun

in teaching newbies with a sting.

First wheelbarrow I tried to bring

across a plank built run

On my first turn, I dumped the thing.

Applause by everyone.

The egg noodles were free

but changed the texture quite a bit

of my jam sandwich- a new hit.

My colleagues laughed with glee.

The jokes on me just never quit.

Yet, all were good for me.

The AM radio

that day in nineteen sixty-three,

announced the death of Kennedy

so that is how I know

when noodle sandwich jubilee

became a subdued show.

But thanking good old Zeus,

I transitioned from labor skills

to other ways to pay my bills.

So I have no excuse

my poems don't provide more thrills,

I'm just a bit obtuse.

  © Lawrencealot - January 10, 2013

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Mirror Sestet

The Mirror Sestet, created by Shelley A. Cephas, is a poem that can be 

written in one or more stanzas of 6 lines each. The specific guidelines for 

this form are as follows:

The first word of line 1 rhymes with the last word of line 1.

The first word of line 2 is the last word of line 1 and the

last word of line 2 is the 1st word of line 1.

The first word of line 3 rhymes with the last word of line 3.

The first word of line 4 is the last word of line 3 and the

last word of line 4 is the 1st word of line 3.

The first word of line 5 rhymes with the last word of line 5.

The first word of line 6 is the last word of line 5 and the 

last word of line 6 is the 1st word of line 5.

The Mirror Sestet can also be written in non-rhyme.

All rules must be followed except there is no 1st and last word rhyming.

Example Poem

It Worked

"Turds like him can speak in fancy words.

Words that  promise much. Those phony turds.

Great gods I fell for it."  Here I wait,

Wait for Merlin to do something great.

"Smile for then he'll make it worth your while.

While there, he'll match figure to your smile."

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