Anaduo

This is an invented form created by Lisa La Grange of Allpoetry.com.

It is Stanzaic, composed of any number of sestets

It is Syllalbic 11/11/8/11/11/8

Meter: All lines are acephalous* anapestic

              The long lines are anapestic tetrameter

              The short lines are anapestic trimeter

Rhyme Scheme:  aabccb

*Acephalous = headless, lacking its first syllable

Example Poem:

Chased by a Cloud     (Anaduo)

Below the horizon, beneath where I stand

the streets of a city lie quilting the land.

It's there that I work and I live.

I set out today, with no purposeful aim

My nose led my feet; up the mountain I came

for nature has beauty to give.

Just barely, below me the sounds I can hear

of traffic and people who don't know I'm here.

I view what's so rarely allowed.

I've climbed here before and I've stayed overnight

but never been treated to quite such a sight.

I'm proud to be chased by a cloud.

© Lawrencealot - January 30, 2014

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Michelle's Quatrain Wrap

This form was created by  Michelle DeLoatch-Barbosa , aka Michelle723 of Allpoety.

It consists of four or more quatrains
the first three lines being written in iambic tetrameter
and the last line being written in iambic trimeter.
Of course poets so inclined may substitute trochaic meter.

Rhyme Scheme: aaab cccb dddb … aaab

Example Poem

Tombstone Movie (Michelle's Quatrain Wrap)

The outlaws had a power base,
controlled the town and usually chased
the law-abiding from the place
and sent them further west.

When Wyatt Earp rode into town
it was to put his own roots down
he'd served as lawman and had found
large measures of success.

He'd brought his wife and brothers too,
all prepared to try something new.
He thought his fighting days were through
He wanted now to rest.

Ike Clanton and an outlaw gang
controlled the town with strum und drang;
the sheriff there weren't worth a dang.
Here outlaws coalesced.

A marshal's killed and terror reigns
and brother Virgil takes the reins
then outlaw enmity begins
with their law self-professed.

Doc Holiday is Wyatt's friend
and to his efforts Doc did lend
his pistol power to defend
a friend he called his best.

When Wyatt met his Josephine
a love at mutual first sight's seen
she leaves before the showdown scene
and moves to the far west.

An ambush kills or maims his kin
then Wyatt dons a badge again
and vows the outlaws now can't win,
their deaths pre-empt arrest.

When Holiday beats Ringo Starr
who could have beaten Earp by far
the outlaws are without a star,
their power dispossessed.

Doc gives Wyatt some sound advice:
before with boots off Doc then dies
most entertained by that surprise-
his final thought expressed.

When Wyatt found her, pled his case,
she accepted and they embraced
with love that never was erased,
as Holiday assessed.

© Lawrencealot - September 2, 2013

A/N
 Following its cinematic release in 1993, Tombstone was named "One of the 5 greatest Westerns ever made" by True West Magazine.

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Swinburne Octain

This is a refrain poem, the form was one of many un-named forms invented by

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909).

I  have interpreted the specifications from looking at the work of one of Swinburne's most dedicated students, AP's own Eusebius.

There are at least TWO significant versions of an octain he created.  This first, presented here is  written in iambi meter, the second  written in trochaic.  The is the first:

Rhyming pattern: ABccabAB, where the capital letter indicate verbatim repetition of a line.

The "b" rhymes are all iambic trimeter,  all other lines  are feminine rhymes utilizing footless (or catalectic) iambic tetrameter.

The first stanza, is repeated as the final stanza of the poem, thus it seems sensible that the minimum poem length should be at least four stanzas.

The Trochaic version is written with the

Rhyming pattern: ababcccb

Syllabic: 9/8/9/8/9/9/9/8

The accent is as two trochee feet, an amphibrach and a trochee with all "b" rhymes being catalectic.

Example Poem

The Tart     (Swinburne Octain)

This tart so thin, bewitching, 

with beauty, fay and pale. 

Her tattoos all parading, 

Her ebon curls cascading, 

until I am just itching 

to see her all in Braille. 

This tart so thin, bewitching, 

with beauty, fay and pale. 

She seems an apparition 

both siren myth and tramp, 

who sells her pleasures cheaply 

to those who want her deeply. 

I feel I must audition 

to win time with this vamp. 

She seems an apparition 

both siren myth and tramp, 

Her long smooth legs inviting 

all who may simply glance. 

Though men might once demean her 

they'll dare not come between her 

and one she is inviting. 

Each man would like his chance. 

Her long smooth legs inviting 

all who may simply glance. 

To me she whispered lightly,

"I'll show you realms of love." 

Her word were most insightful 

Her movements were delightful 

I longed to have her nightly 

beneath the moon above. 

To me she whispered lightly,

"I'll show you realms of love." 

This tart so thin, bewitching, 

with beauty, fay and pale. 

Her tattoos all parading, 

Her ebon curls cascading, 

until I am just itching 

to see her all in Braille. 

This tart so thin, bewitching, 

with beauty, fay and pale. 

© Lawrencealot - June 17, 2013

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Amphibrach Trimeter

The amphibrach is a trisyllabic metrical foot, which in accentual meter consists of an accented syllable between two unaccented syllables.

Example Poem

Bird Watching

Reclining relaxed in the garden

the cat was ignoring my  calling,

indifferently birds kept on chirping,

idyllic conditions for poets.

Amusing deception, cat lazy

and silent just waiting for breakfast.

Indolent or working at trapping

a birdie who thinks that he's sleeping?

I'll leave now before I spoil something. 

 © Lawrencealot - May 5, 2012

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Entwined

Entwined Form      
This is a form invented by Mary Lou Healy, aka Mlou on Allpoetry.com
The form consists of three or more trimeter quintets, usually in Iambic where the 3rd line of each stanza rhymes with the first line of the following stanza, until the final stanza which rhymes with the first line of the poem.
           
Rhyme pattern: abcba cdedc efafe  

Example Poem

Growth in Scansion

If I can ever learn
well then I'll try to teach.
But just today I find
my wants exceed my reach,
and yet for more I yearn.

Old knowledge falls behind,
but learning it was key
for now I understand
those things I could not see-
no syllables defined.

The first two stanzas scan
as iambs every one.
an ananapest is wide.
It looks not right when done
in syllables, here man.

Trimeter's satisfied.
Shoes don't swap but feet do.
For syllables dactyls have three
and iambs have but two.
Three feet per line I've tried.

A template let's you see
and can be used intact,
learning feet lets you spurn
just counting, that's a fact-
a skill eluding me.

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