California Rhyme Stanza

Invented by Barbara Dilworth and introduced at VoleCentral

The California Rhymed Stanza is:
isosyllabic (same number of syllables each line)
stanzaic, any number of septets (seven-line stanza)
rhymed pattern: ababcbc
meter optional

My thanks to Ron Newman at Volecentral for this information, his site is a wonderful resource.

Example Poem

Surrogate    (California Rhyme Stanza)

I am a cheater I'll admit

I rarely delve into my mind

and find new notions to submit.

left to myself I'd be behind

the eight-ball waiting for my muse,

but seeing other's work, I find,

will often give me writing clues.

The art may come from any field,

from folks way more profound than I.

With cutting tools that artists wield

they show what's hidden to the eye.

Then sometimes, somehow, I'm allowed

to tell how their work makes me high,

to share their visions makes me proud.

© Lawrencealot - November 9, 2013

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Here I created a pentameter template then chose to write 
iambic tetrameter.

Rhaiku

A Poetry form invented on AP by Matt

A poem consisting of One stanza of Rhyme, one stanza of haiku,

 and one stanza of free verse.

The order of the components is up to the poet.

Example Poem

Without Repentance

semi-clad, somnolent,

climbing over broken logs--

kids explore their camp

There had been no time

in the circadian twilight

to properly define the false

Niagara bubbling, with snatches

of Mozart melodies

into nearby brook.

The first awake, they had to take their tawny dog and find

the wonders here that did appear, as frozen, left behind

for summer time respite.  They'd climb and swim and even shout;

for being loud was here allowed, and home-based rules were out-

maybe fleecing their sister (decreasing her oatmeal share),

Some things do last without contrast and happen anywhere.

(c) Lawrencealot - October 20, 2012

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Rhyme Royal

Rhyme Royal:

The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. 

The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be constructed 

either as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or 

a quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c). 

This allows for a good deal of variety, especially when the form is used for 

longer narrative poems and along with the couplet, 

it was the standard narrative metre in the late Middle Ages. 

Example Poem

Tempus Ambigua

Time is a concept quite beyond my ken.

String theory baffles brilliant folks and me.

I'll not wax philosophic then again 

Perhaps I did already, shame on me.

Time keeps everything in order you see.

For flies who's life-cycle completes in one day,

Men and boys would be distinct I would say.

We can tell a larva and the  grown fly

are one and the same. Flies would see two types 

of animals that grouped but would not know why.

Our sense of time is different awake 

or when we sleep, and by task goodness sake.

Don't tell a guy that seconds are the same

while shoveling manure or kissing a dame.

© Lawrencealot - April 14, 2012

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Rondelet

The Rondelet  is a brief French form of poetry. It consists of one stanza, made up of seven lines. It contains a refrain, a strict rhyme scheme and a distinct meter pattern.

The word is the diminutive of rondel, a similar, longer verse form. This is the basic structure:

Syllabic    4/8/4/8/8/8/4

Rhymed  A  b A a  b  b  A

Where A is the refrain

The refrained lines should contain the same words, however substitution or different use of punctuation on the lines has been common.

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Triquain

Triquain...created by Shelley Cephas,

A Triquain is a seven line poem with syllables in multiples of 3 as follows:

3, 6, 9, 12, 9, 6, 3 This form is always centered.

syllabic,3/6/9/12/9/6/3,unrhymed,Cephas,min 7L,max none

ALWAYS Centered

Example Poem:

Interim Heaven  (Triquain chain)

The puppy

brought to the hospital

where the boy was dying adopted

him on first sight.  The lad's pain was subdued by drugs.

Nothing could subdue the instant joy

filling him as he hugged

The puppy.

The cancer

would not relent, and yet

the boy's eyes were brighter than before

and he never cried another day.  The puppy

snuggled when he slept and licked his face;

played gently other times

with the boy.

When the boy

passed on while he slept, the

puppy knew and whined, parents wept.  In

tears a younger brother took the pup, who shut up

and licked away that boy's tears.  Wiping

grief away, replacing

it with love.

(c) Lawrencealot - May 7,2012

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