The Donna

• The Donna is a syllabic Limerick, without requiring the anapestic rhythm. Created by Viola Berg, the verse should be witty and fun.
  
  The Donna is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of quintains.
• syllabic, lines of 8-6-4-4-6.
• rhyme xabba, xcddc 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

Out at Second Base     (The Donna)

I couldn't undo her brassier,

and dammit how I tried,

for big boobs need,

they do indeed,

a strap that's pretty wide.

Exasperated, the girl said,

"Let's kiss and kiss some more."

I missed her flesh

but our lips meshed

until my lips were sore.

© Lawrencealot - March 22, 2014

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English Quintet

The English Quintet is a rhymed 5 line stanza or poem. There is no English word for a 5 lines of verse therefore they borrowed the Italian word quintet. Up until the 19th century English poetry was pretty much built on the couplet and quatrain. The English version of the quintet arrived at a time when most English poetry was still being written in iambic pentameter.

The English Quintet is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of quintets (5 line stanzas).
• metered, most commonly iambic pentameter, although meter is optional.
This is a popular form of Quintain having no set measure or foot
rhyme scheme ababb, cdcdd etc.

Description of form copied and pasted from PoetryMagnumOpus.com http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=670

Example Poem

Not a Muscle Car

I earned my dough to buy a car at last.
In '56 I'd break the geekdom mold.
"No", said mom "You'll buy nothing that goes fast.
You're sixteen and will do what you are told."
I could afford to buy some car quite old.

A Studebaker, mom thought looked all right.
With white walls it stood proudly green and clean.
It had one after market feature quite
unique, a sequined roof of stars was seen
upon the overhead; girls thought it keen.

It lasted 'til my high school days were done.
Four bits worth of gas could cruise all night long.
The crankshaft dropped so no more could it run.
That happened when I punched it- that was wrong,
and why mom let me buy it for a song.

© Lawrencealot -  December 16, 2012



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Ripple

This is a form created by Larry Eberhart,  aka Lawrencealot on Allpoetry

It is similar to the Monometic form but with the additional constraint of

line-length in feet being required to match the stanza line count.

The form may be written in three modes:

First as an Augmented Ripple, were the first stanza is two lines, with each additional stanza adding one line.

Next, as a Dimishished Ripple where the first stanza contains the maximum number of lines, with each following stanza having one less, until the two line stanza concludes.

Finally the Reversing Rippled which  can begin as either of the above, and then upon reaching its normal conclusion point reverse the process until it concludes with a stanza the length of the beginning stanza.  The turning stanza is not repeated.

All stanzas are mono-rhyme, or all are blank verse.

Example Poem

[Is Coco Nuts?]    (Ripple-Reversing)

Is Coco nuts

or just a klutz?

She's always out of breath.

All things are life or death.

I think she's hooked on meth.

She writes graffiti on the wall

and runs half-naked through the hall

but she's so nice to one and all

so every night a boy will call.

Each guy gets just one turn

no matter how they yearn.

Her own desire's to learn.

I would replay

my single day.

© Lawrencealot - February 16, 2013

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Oddquain

Oddquain: Created by Glenda L. Hand.

Usually unrhymed.    

17 syllables in five lines. Syllable Count: 1-3-5-7-1

Oddquain sequences:   poems made up of Oddquain stanzas.

Crown Oddquains: a five stanza Oddquain sequence

Reverse Oddquains: Reverse syllable patter 1-7-5-3-1

Mirror Oddquains: two stanzas: 1-3-5-7-1     1-7-5-3-1

Oddquain Butterflies: a merged mirror pattern.

  

Two Oddquains merge but use only one 

of the 1 syllables in the joining. 

1-3-5-7-1-7-5-3-1

Example Poem

Morning Ritual  (Mirror Oddquain)

I

pour a cup

black steaming coffee

sugar provides food value

Ahhh!

Jam

and butter fill the English

muffin crevices

then my mouth,

yum.

© Lawrencealot - April 9, 2012

MLou Quintet

This form was invented by Mary Lou Healy, aka, MLou at Allpoetry
Each Stanza has the following form:
Line 1, 5 feet;
Line 2, 3 feet;
Line 3, 4 feet;
Line 4, 3 feet;
Line 5, 4 feet.

As many quintet stanzas as preferred,
rhyme scheme: ababa  cdcdc  efefe  ghghg  etc.


Example Poem

My Wife

While I sat pondering, "What shall I write?"
my thoughts turned to my wife.
Of course she is my warmth at night-
adds color to my life,
but still those claims seem much too trite.

Her common sense exceeds one's proper share.
No problem she has faced
has gone unsolved; now that is rare.
She finds what I've misplaced
and tends to all with loving care.

She thinks that even at my age I'm fine,
and though I don't agree
(I think my faults are still benign)
she does put up with me
and populates my life's design.

© Lawrencealot - September 24, 2012


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Monometric

The Monometric Form was
Invented by  Walter E. Ferguson III, aka Thunder_Speech on Allpoetry

The form can be manifest in three modes:
The norm is Augmented Monometric, illustrated below by that author's poem.

This form requires the poet to begin with a couplet, then augment
each succeeding stanza with one more line.

Each stanza is to be independent mono-rhyme.

Lines can be of any constant meter, e.g.,
Iambic trimeter, Iambic tetrameter, Iambic pentameter, etc..or
Trochaic tetramter, trochaic pentameter, etc., or
Amphibrach Dimeter, amphibrach Trimeter, etc..
To summarize, the poet may choose ANY consistent meter and feet, and
then apply mono-rhyme to increasing length stanzas.

If the poet chooses to start with his maximum stanza length and subtract one line
each stanza, ending with a couplet, it is then called a Diminished Monometric.

Clearly an enterprising poet could append each type and have a Reversing Monometric.

Example Poem

Routine   (Reversing Monometric)

Joe digs the hole each day.
It's always been that way.

I stick the bloody pole
into the bloomin' hole
That's always been my role.

The hole's then filled by Ned.
while Joe goes on ahead.
I fetch poles from the shed,
so nothing need be said.

Well I was sick one day.
Work went on anyway.
They knew their jobs okay.
They did them the same way.

Joe dug; Ned filled the hole.
They both knew their own role
but didn't know the goal.

It's OK, now I'm back.
We'll get the fence on track.

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Rondel Grand

This is a form created by Victoria Sutton, aka, Passionspromise.

It is stanzaic, and syllabic, with a minimum of 3 quintains, and no maximum.

The first four lines are 8 syllables, the fifth line is 6 syllables.

Rhyme Pattern: ababR cdcdR..etc.     

    

Example Poem

Missiles Launched

The hawks of war are given cause

by rogue depots exporting hate.

Their missiles met now with applause

from hating killers may tempt fate.

Unsheathe  the swords of war.

     

Let power fall to terrorist

Organs of any stripe, then know

that peaceful folks will not resist

what will most surely be the flow.

Unsheathe  the swords of war.

     

Israel has restrained and we

at cabinet levels have been mute,

regarding retaliatory

actions. But at some time we'll shoot.

Unsheathe  the swords of war.

(c) Lawrencealot - April 5,2012     

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Tetractys

Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, 

consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20).  

Tetractys can be written with more than one verse, but must follow suit 

with an inverted syllable count.  

Tetractys can also be reversed and written 10, 4, 3, 2, 1. 

Double Tetractys:  1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1

Triple Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10

Example Poem

What?  Now?

Half

of the

populous

always want sex.

Women I think, tend to be more choosy.