The Kerf

• The Kerf is a verse form in tercets and is attributed to Marie Adams.

The Kerf is:
○ a poem in 12 lines made up of 4 tercets.
○ syllabic, 6-7-10 per line.
○ rhymed, rhyme scheme abc abc dec dec.


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My Example Poem

If She Says "What ?" (The Kerf)

You could be wrong, you know,

and perhaps you could be right,

and either way it seldom matters much.

You never need to show

your correctness out of spite.

Conceding may help keep you out of dutch.

If your wife should say "What",

when your statement's barely out,

it's possible, you're somehow out of touch.

Try this to save your butt!

"That's Fred's thinking- I'm in doubt.

I wonder darlin', what you think of such?"

© Lawrencealot - March 28, 2014

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Rime Couée

Rime Couée is a tail-rhymed verse form of 12th century Provencal troubadours. Though it originated in France, it is thought to be the predecessor of the more popular Scot form, the Burns Stanza.

The Rime Couée is:

• stanzaic, written in any number of sixains made up of two tercets.

• accentual, folk meter of normal speech. L1,L2, L4, L5 are longer lines of a similar length, L3 and L6 are shorter lines of the same length.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme aabccb, ddeffe etc.
  
  

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My example Poem

St. Joseph Lighthouse - Lake Michigan        (Rime Couée)

When Old Man Winter struts his stuff

to show that he is good enough

he paints in white.

Unlike the art-work done by Spring

where colors touch most everything

pastel or bright.

His canvass can be anything

a bridge a tree, an old coil spring

that's left outside.

St. Joseph lighthouse shown above

received full measure of his love.

I'm satisfied.

©Lawrencealot - February 8, 2014

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Memento

Themed:          about a holiday or anniversary.

Stanzaic:          sestet consisting of two tercets

Syllabic:            8/6/2/8/6/2

Rhymed:           abcabc

Source quoted:

Memento, created by Emily Romano is a poem about a holiday or an anniversary, consisting of two stanzas as follows: the syllable count should be 8 beats for line one; 6 beats for line two; and two beats for line three. This is repeated twice for each stanza. The rhyme scheme is: a/b/c/a/b/c for each of the two stanzas.

Example #1:

Sky Flowers

Circumference unlimited

As flowers in the sky

Expand;

We stand in awe, inhibited,

As bright explosives fly

From land.

July wears flowers in the sky

Spreading above the town

In flight;

We stand in awe, ready to cry

Aloud as they resound

This night.

Copyright © 2007 Emily Romano

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My Example Attempt

This Night     (Memento)

The faces of the children glow

expecting old Saint Nick

this night,

with wonder only children know

and hoping to sleep quick

tonight.

© Lawrencealot -December 4,2013

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Dixdeux

• Dixdeux, French for ten-two, is illustrated by Anthony Fusco in Caulkins' Handbook on Haiku and Other Form Poems, 1970 . . . It appears to have developed as an alternative to the Haiku.
  
  The Dixdeux is:
• written in any number of tercets. When written in more than one tercet, L3 becomes a refrain.
• syllabic, with 10-10-2 syllables per line.
• is unrhymed.
• titled, unlike the haiku.
•  
• -------------- Hot Topic by Judi Van Gorder
  
  an unopened coke sits in closed up truck
  outside the summer temperature rises
  -------------- KABOOM!
  
  sticky brown liquid spatters upholstery
  meticulous owner finds mess inside
  -------------- KABOOM!

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My Attempt

Thanksgiving Day Football      (Dixdeux)

The aroma of turkey, panoply

of pies, threaten little distraction to

The game.

Living room furniture placed horseshoe style

in front wide-screen keeping kids away from

The game.

© Lawrencealot - November 27, 2013

Twisted End

The Twisted End form is a creation of Nichole Alexander.

This is a stanzaic poem consisting of four or five tercet stanzas.

Each stanza has independent monorhyme.

There is no line-length or meter requirement.

The defining requirement of the form is that some part  of each of the first two lines be "twisted"

together in forming the third stanza line which MUST INCLUDE INTERNAL RHYME.

Example Poem

Write a Twisted End   (Twisted End)

You must depend on rhyme as your good friend

with mono and internal rhyme to blend

depend on your internal rhyme to end.

The Twisted End sets forth no metric tone.

but permits choice if poet is so prone.

The Twisted End my friend permits your own.

No poetic device is disallowed.

A verse endowed will rise above the crowd.

Device endowed attempts should make one proud.

Alliterate or write with metaphor

or obfuscate and be a common boor.

Allit with wit makes common a bit more.

 © Lawrencealot - March 13, 2013

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Compound Word Verse

The Compound Word Verse is a poetry form invented by Margaret R. Smith
that consists of five 3-line stanzas, for a total of 15 lines.
The last line of each stanza ends in a compound word and
these compound words share a common stem word which is taken from the title.
(In the example below the stem word is “snow” from the title “The Unexpected Snow”;
the compound words related
to the title are snowflakes, snowdrifts, snowstorms, etc.)  

The Compound Word Verse has a set rhyme scheme and meter as follows:

Rhyme Scheme: a,a,b
Meter: 8, 8, 3

Example Poem

Dancing in the Rain

Choking on dust-- driving cattle.
Pushin' them home's been a battle.
It's rainless.

A local  Injun decided
he could help so he provided
a  raindance.

I'll be home with my gal to night.
So guess what? It's starting... all right!
Some rainfall.

As I ran from the barn my true
love was running toward me through
a rainstorm.

Dancin' wet together so free;
each damp and hot… today there'll be
no raincheck.

© Lawrencealot - April 17, 2012


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Constanza

The Constanza, created by Connie Marcum Wong, consists of five or more 3-line stanzas.
Each line has a set meter of eight syllables.
The first lines of all the stanzas can be read successively as an independent poem,
with the rest of the poem weaved in to express a deeper meaning.
The first lines convey a theme written in monorhyme,
while the second and third lines of each stanza rhyme together.

Rhyme scheme: abb acc add aee aff...


Example Poem

 The Desert

To venture forth in desert lands
Most city folk would likely shun
but wonders grow beneath that sun.
   
To trek with cheer on arid sands
requires a sense of how  things fit,
for God has made an art of it.
   
To ramble where the cactus stands
and know that life support is found
for man if he should walk this ground
   
and pick their fruits with your own hands
gives one respect for synergy
which can't be random, seems to me.
   
This joy a cowboy understands.
The hospitality exists
most everywhere, and life persists.

(c) Lawrencealot - April 7, 2012


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Cyhydedd hir

Cyhydedd Hir, cuh-hée-dedd heer (long cyhydedd), the 18th codified ancient Welsh Meters an Awdl, is most often written as a couplet following other metered couplets within a stanza.

Cyhydedd Hir is:
• written in any number of single lines made up of 19 syllables divided into 3 rhymed 5 syllable phrases and ending in a 4 syllable phrase carrying a linking rhyme to the next line.
• or could be written as a couplet of a 10 syllable line and a 9 syllable line. The 5th and 10th syllables of the 10 syllable line are echoed in rhyme mid line of the 9 syllable line which also carries a linking end-rhyme to be echoed in the end syllable of each succeeding couplet or stanza.
• or the couplet can be separated at the rhyme, into tercet or quatrain.

single line
x x x x A x x x x A x x x x A x x x B

or as a couplet

x x x x A x x x x A
x x x x A x x x B

or quatrains
x x x x A
x x x x A
x x x x A
x x x B

x x x x C
x x x x C
x x x x C
x x x B

or tercets
x x x x A
x x x x A
x x x x A x x x B

x x x x C
x x x x C
x x x x C x x x B

x x x x D
x x x x D
x x x x D x x x B

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Example Poem

Lovers in the Park

Lovers in the park
Share a certain spark,
life is but a lark.
They share desire.
Soft whispers calling,
on grass they're sprawling,
each other mauling,
Eros on fire.

Wanting without shame,
desire sparks the flame,
part of all love's game,
this is true lust.
In his eyes a gleam,
her pulse one hot stream.
for each-- what a dream,
this sensual trust.

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