Rhopalic V erse

A poem wherein the nTH word of every line in each stanza has N-syllables.

word 1 = 1syllable

word 2 = 2 syllables

word 3 = 3 syllables

word 4 = 4 syllables

word 5 = 5 syllables,  etc

This a a syllabic form with any number of varialble length stanzas where rhyme is not required.

Example Poem

Pen poems carefully;  believable,  justifiable 

words denounce malignant authority

Quill lightly happily, reliably

help convince dangerous majority.

Write subdued parodies captivating automatically

those minions unconvinced America

is being minimized absolutely systematically

Such writings minimize hysteria.

(c) Lawrencealot - August 17, 2013

Rhupunt

Rhupunt is one of the 24 traditional Welsh forms and has a scheme of aab ccb ddb etc. or aaab cccb dddb etc., or aaaab ccccb ddddb etc. Alternatively, each stanza can be a single line (but this prayer is so short I chose the former layout). It is described here:

http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/celtic2.html#awlrhu

My poem above uses Cynghanedd Sain (sonorous or chiming consonance), that is, treating each stanza as a single line: this involves three elements, the first two rimed (end-words of L1 and L2 in each stanza above), and the 3rd (2nd word of L3 in each stanza above) repeating the consonants of the 2nd. Cynghanedd Sain is described here:

http://allpoetry.com/column/2348659 (scroll 2/3 to ¾ of the way down)

A four syllable line each stanza can be of three, four or five lines a..a..a..B. 

The next stanza rhymes the similar c..c..c..B.The rhyme could change for the next 

stanzas. We end up with a pattern thus:

x x x a 

x x x a 

x x x a 

x x x B 

x x x c 

x x x c 

x x x c 

x x x B

I have used but three lines in the example below.  

My poem above uses Cynghanedd Sain (sonorous or chiming consonance),

which links the last syllable of L2 to the 2nd Syllable of L3.

that calls for consonant rhyme, but in the last line I stepped it up to full rhyme,

not knowing if this might be forbidded.   (It fit too well to ignore.)

Example Poem

Put on a smile

act all the while

the whole is swell.

Ignore all guile

and evil while

fears will disspell.

Will is our own.

You have here grown

won't groan in hell.

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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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Rictometer

Rictameter is a scheme similar to Cinquain.            

Starting your first line with a two syllable word, you then consecutively increase the number of syllables per line by two. i.e. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10  Then down again, 8, 6, 4, 2 Making the final line the same two syllable word you began with. 

This form looks best when centered

Example Poem

Shadow 

The puppy lived 

because I rescued him. 

Just a boy myself, no one close. 

Nursed him to health; trained him easily too 

and my grandma watched us blossom. 

He played with me, slept with 

me, became my 

shadow

Rionnaird tri-nard (RUN-ard tree-nard)

Rionnaird tri-nard (RUN-ard tree-nard), traditional Irish quatrain 

form with 6-syllable lines ending in 2-syllable words, 

L2 and L4 riming and L3 in consonance thereto (meaning in this case, 

I gather, vowel-agreement rather than consonant-agreement, 

having at one time meant the same thing as assonance), 

alliteration in every line (ideally between the end-word and the 

preceding stressed word), two cross-rimes in the 2nd couplet,

and the 1st stressed word of L2 alliterating with the last syllable of L1.

 Being Irish, it requires the dunedh, to end where it began 

(first word, phrase, or line repeated in closing). 

Example Poem

Promise

Inviting just by sight,

almost tinsel trapping,

stilletoed toes tripping,

in her sheer hose wrapping.

She's surely sensuous;

Suggests sex is waiting,

waits while will is wilting.

Still fates are Inviting.

(c) Lawrencealot - May 17, 2012

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I see here now that I have failed, if indeed every line

is to end in two-syllable words.  Ah well, close.

Rishal

A poetry form created by Chindarella consising of four or more 3-line stanzas and a single concluding line.  Each line has 10 syllables. The first line of each stanza is divided into two 5-syllable parts.

No specific meter is required.

In each stanza the first line begins with the second part of the first line from the previous stanza.

The rhyme scheme is aba cdc efe ghg ... x.

The 2nd line in each stanza must have internal rhyme with the 5th syllable

rhyming with the 10th.

( I would presume that poets who opt for iambic or trochaic meter, may adjust

the line segments and interal rhyme syllable accordingly)

The final line does not need to rhyme;

it also begins with the second part of the preceding first line.

Example Poem

Intermission

We all are forewarned, no one is surprised.

Though death awaits all, we all may ride tall.

We can't write death out; script can't be revised.

No one is surprised that our days will end

By some grand design, while most parts are fine

there are no clues that Death's presence portend.

That our days will end, all but children know.

How poor we'd be served if fear were deserved.

Such in not the case, play, love, give, then go.

All but children know our curtain shall fall.

Readied all your life, by faith, friends, and wife,

by, works of hand and mind and love for all.

Our curtain shall fall for intermission.

(c) Lawrencealot -April 29, 2013

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Rispetto

The Rispetto is:

a poem in an octave, made up of 2 quatrains.

most often written in iambic tetrameter 

or it can be syllabic with lines between 8 and 12 syllables.

rhymed ababccdd or abababcc or abab cddc

The Heroic Rispetto is:

a poem in an octave made up of 2 quatrains.

always written in iambic pentameter.

rhymed ababccdd or abababcc or abab cddc

It appears that either may be separate quatrains or 

a single octave as the poet prefers.

Example Poem

Heroic Rispetto by Lawrecealot

Rispetto is an old Italian form.

It's English use has been neglected here.

It's not in books that are the writers' norm.

But searching yielded samples quite unclear.

What once was standard tetrameter changed.

It now can stretch to hexameter, dear.

If you have penned two stanza poems arranged

in quatrains your Rispetto may be here.

(c) Lawrencealot - April 16, 2012

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