Quartina

Naturally I fell prey to Bob's wit as I started to document the

Quartina, and mis-wrote it as the more natural and mundane Quatrina.

Well, that has been rectified.

Quartina

Type:	Structure, End Word Requirement
Description:	The four-line stanza version of the sestina with the typical end-word enfolding.
Attributed to:	Bob Newman
Origin:	England
Schematic:	1234 4123 3412 2341 Envoy: 12 / 34
Rhythm/Stanza Length:	4
Line/Poem Length:	18

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Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford. 

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Quartina 

Another variation for which I accept full responsibility is the quartina.  This uses the same idea as the sestina but only has 4 keywords, hence is only 18 lines long. Here's one:

Eclipse

This is the day when we shall see the moon
Dispute the morning sky; usurp the sun;
Beshroud the world in unaccustomed dark.
We know this - and we know it won’t last long.

This is the day; the wait will not be long
Until we’re on the dark side of the moon.
Unseen by us, our life-giver, the sun,
Will impotently rage against the dark.

The birds, lulled into silence by the dark,
Will tuck heads under wings - but not for long.
Two minutes only, this night of the moon,
Before the sky is reclaimed by the sun.

Though there is nothing new under the sun,
All seems new at the dying of the dark.
A second full dawn chorus, loud and long
Will celebrate the passing of the moon.

Don’t worry when the moon obscures the sun.
Although the day be dark, it won’t be long.

I chose the name "quartina" so that I could write flawed ones. 

© Bob Newman 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. All rights reserved

Pasted from http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/sestinavar2.htm#bina

My thanks to Bob Newman for his wonderful resource site.

My Example Poem

Do You Suppose?     (Quartina)

A girl well knows what means a rose

when she can get one from a man.

Of course she might prefer a Porsche;

the goal then might be mistress role.

If rolling in the hay's your role

I don't suppose you need a rose.

If much elan defines your man

Of course one might expect a Porsche

It's never coarse to own a Porsche

or take control of your own role,

but heaven knows a red, red rose

might show the game-plan of a man.

I really can picture a man

who owns a horse, but not a Porsche

with plenty soul for either role

who might propose with just one rose.

So take the rose and love the man

forget the Porsche and part-time role.

© Lawrencealot - January 8, 2013

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

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This is a Quartina ( in iambic tetrameter with added internal rhyme)

Mononet

The Mononet is an invented form  (weren't they all), created seven years ago by B Chandler of Allpoetry.

It is a complete poem of 18 lines

consisting of two octave stanzas and a couplet.

It is syllabic with the 5th line of each octave and the final line of the couplet having 12 syllables, line 17 having 6 syllables,and all other lines having 11 syllables.

Line 5 of each octave consists of six syllables repeated. (Half line refrain).

Line 8 of Stanza 1 is repeated as line 18.  (Full line refrain.)

Rhyme Scheme: abab(AA)baB cdcd(CC)dcd aB

or                          abba(AA)bbA2 cdcc(DD)dcd aA2

 where the capital letters indicate partial or whole line refrains.

The creator's poem, and my visual template will clarify the specifications.

Her Example

Simplicity Capturing

For a time alone, things seem lost in a show

While beauty is standstill, this soul knew life

In ways that can’t comprehend but gained its low

As time passes during seasoned change and rife—

Epiphanies re-grow, epiphanies re-grow

Words of splendor and phrases lost into strife,

These limbs stood idle; momentum grandeur’s bow

For surroundings of new plus old, there lies its knife

Caught within this dream of rebirth, though all knew

At this point, another soul walked alongside 

The woods enthralled from things unforeseen thus grew

Rediscovered lights through shadowed paths reside-

For knowledge’s wind blew…for knowledge’s wind blew

Heads bowed—silence reigned and trails of tranquil pride

Wrote lines of creation; hued colors mixed flew

To the only place were serenity’s guides

Epiphanies re-grow…

To the only place were serenity’s guides

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Atrina

The ATRINA form was Invented by Keith Metcalf Drew of AllPoetry.

The poem consists of four verses, the first three verses are constructed of four lines.

Each line consists of 8 beats.

The first and last lines in each verse are exactly the same.

The third line in each verse is of similar wording to the second line or reversed i however prefer it if you use the same words but reversed.

Then when you have written the three verses.

The fourth verse consists of the first two lines from each of the three verses.

Here is an example:

AN ATRINA:

Her heart it pales in shades of grey,

The pain inside to ever stay,

Inside the pain to ever stay,

Her heart it pales in shades of grey,

Reciting all the poems she’d read,

The lover lost within her bed,

Lost the lover within her bed,

Reciting all the poems she’d read,

And deep within she still believes,

The angels keep her heart its grief,

The grief her heart the angels keep,

And deep within she still believes,

Her heart it pales in shades of grey,

The pain inside to ever stay,

Reciting all the poems she’d read,

The lover lost within her bed,

And deep within she still believes.

The angels keep her heart its grief.

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 Example Poem

From the Mist    (Atrina)

A love like yours is heaven's gift.

It saved a soul that was adrift.

A soul was saved that was adrift.

A love like yours is heaven's gift.

You came to me out of the mist.

Your lips demanding to be kissed.

Your lips expecting to be kissed.

You came to me out of the mist.

I left mere mortals on the shore

to be with you forever more.

with you I'll be forever more.

I left mere mortals on the shore.

A love like yours is heaven's gift.

It saved a soul that was adrift.

You came to me out of the mist.

Your lips demanding to be kissed.

I left mere mortals on the shore

to be with you forever more.

© Lawrencealot - March 10, 2013

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dandizette

Dandizette form created by discoveria of Allpoetry.com

3 six line stanzas
the form is partially inspired by the villanelle, and features a tricky repetition of four refrain lines in the final stanza.
 the syllable count for the first twostanzas  is 8, 6, 8, 8, 6, 8.
The last stanza has lines of 6, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8 syllables.
The rhyme scheme is ababcb cbcdcd bcbcee.

The final stanza is composed of lines 2, 5, 8, 11 from the previous two stanzas, plus a concluding rhyming couplet.

Where they reappear in the last stanza, the four repeated lines should make sense together as well as making sense where they are first used. iambic meter is not required.

Example Poem

Beneath the Dancing Lights  (Dandizette)

Every fellow  here wants first dance.
She is a lovely tease
though proper for a girl from France.
With her shape she does dress to please
with bodice cut so low.
'Twould be a thrill to watch her sneeze.
   
Tonight the breeze will lightly blow
outside beneath the trees
the lights will swing and sway as though
they are dancing too.  As on stage
in dancing lights she'll glow.
She'll attract men of any age.
   
She is a lovely tease
with bodice cut so low.
Outside beneath the trees
in dancing lights she'll glow.
She will light up many man's life.
And she'll tick off many a wife.

(c) Lawrencealot - March 2, 2012


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Melodic

This is a form invented by a poet who writes as  chasingtheday on Allpoetry.com
It is 15 syllables per line and at the beginning of every new line                      
you rhyme with the last word of the previous line.                                      
The first verse is 7 lines,                      
the second verse is 6 lines                      
and third verse is 5 lines.                      
                       
The rhyme for the whole poem is end line rhyme -                      
Rhyme may be perfect rhyme, slant rhyme, or assonance rhyme, or sight rhyme                      
abcabcc                      
defdef                      
ghigg                      
                       
Each new line beginning must be the same rhyme as the              
end line rhyme of the line before it.
The following template may help.  Interpret the rhyme column (a)b as meaning the
first word uses the a-rhyme, the end-word uses the b-rhyme.

Example Poem

Calls for Careful Constant Cogitation   (Melodic)

This form requires lines fifteen syllables long, an internal
Infernal rhyme that's tough, because adjoining words must rhyme, hence
sense must accrue quickly to pairs that seem spaced so far apart.
Start with a new sentence when you need a break,  an external
nocturnal stimulant, like caffeine or nicotine dispensed
condensed into a pot or a pack may elevate your heart
chart and move your muse.  Or kill you like sex, food, or exercise.

Surprise surreptitiously surfaces when stringing sev'ral
caesural sounds sequentially but may lend a lift and lilt.
Tilt your lance and charge capriciously calling for less control.
Enroll enchanting images of white winged fairies with all
enthralled by fluttering and dancing as if on flower quilt.
Stilt your language if antiquities you're planning to enroll.

Droll wit can be levered when you have so many words, but wit
lit out from me this week.  I hoped muse and I could together
gather something credible, (not aiming for incredible)--
bull can only be shoveled just so deep.  But muse chose to sit
it out, and left me all alone.  Thus this time will be no hit.


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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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