Dreamscape

This form was invented by Sector-Hunter on Allpoetry.com  simply for people to have
fun while creating short poems with internal rhyme.

The Dreamscape is a form with only the following requirements:

There are two tercet stanzas.

The first two lines in each have rhyming beginning and ending words.

The third line needs no rhyme, and summarize the first two.
No line length or meter requirements.


I tried to show the smallest possible stanza, along with normal one.

Example Poem

Harrisham Rhyme

This form consists of a six-line rhyming stanza.
In this form, the last letter of the first word of each line
is the first letter of the first word of next line.
Rhyming scheme : ababab.
There is no restriction on the starting letter of the first line.
No restriction upon line length or meter.
Invented by:  Harrisham Minhas

Example Poem

Stuck?              (Harrisham Rhyme)

Deoppilate exsuflicate concerns.

Enter some eximous and friendly verse 

removing problem words that meter spurns.

Get stuck during day?  Then try the reverse. 

Try to dinurate 'til the muse returns.

Yet a geck? Oh what the heck?  I've done worse.

 © Lawrencealot - March 2, 2013


*Deopillate - remove an obstruction
*Exsuflicate - "something which is silly or trifling"
*Eximous "choice or excellent"
* Dinurate - sleep during the day
* Geck - 2. An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull


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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

Pasted from <http://thepoetsgarret.com/2010Challenge/form11.html> 

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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Sedoka

The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta

 with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7.

A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem,

may address the same subject from differing perspectives.

Katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem with

the following syllable counts: 5/7/7.

Example Poem

Getting Trained

Baby learning speech

"Lo, Papa", points down to floor.

I look for object on floor.

"No, grandpa", say mom.

The baby wants you closer

She wants you to "Stand there please."

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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Tyburn

A six line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 syllables.

The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words.

The last two lines rhyme and incorporate

the first, second, third, and fourth lines as 2 syllables

Rhyme Scheme:  xxxxee

Example Poem:

Campus Choices

Brashest                                                        

Dullest                                                        

Dearest                                                        

Cutest                                                        

The brashest, dullest jock, slow to start

Found the dearest, cutest, girls too smart.

Vignette Form

The Vignette is also the name of a syllabic invented verse form introduced by Fozari Rockwood found in Pathways for the Poet by Viola Berg1977.

The Vignette is:

a hexastich, an unrhymed poem in 6 lines.

syllabic, 2-4-4-6-7-3 syllables per line.

Example Poem:

Activities Director ( Vignette form )

Supine, 

reading a book. 

My yorkie drops 

his chew ball upon my 

chest, holds it with one paw; quiet

bark, "Let's go."