Behrquain

A shaped form invented by Madison Shaw, aka Arkbear on Allpoetry
with syllable count
2-4-6-8-6-4-2-4-6-8-6-4-2-4-6-8-6-4-2-4-6-8-6-4-2-4-6-8-6-4-2
form should be centered with care given to appearance.

Example Poem

Fake It

!!

Fake it

'til you make it

is an axiom that

will amaze you with its results.

Pick any skill you want

to master and

try it.

From braiding string

to throwing clay, just do

it like you already knew how.

First effort might not please,

but soon they  will.

Fake it.

If you are glum

but glum you wish to quit,

act happy.  Happy you'll  become.

It sounds a bit simplistic, but don't doubt

my word on this!  This works with other folks about.

You'll  change the room; pretense has so much clout.

You can pollute a fun room too

if you aren’t mad and that's

what want to do

Fake it.

I used to have

to think and think to find

a proper rhyme, so simply used

made-up words, and talked like

doctor Seuss or

Mother

Goose.   Less than a

week of that, and rhyming

was so natural my life may

be at risk from deranged

wife.  Maybe don't

Fake it.

!!

© Lawrencealot - May 31, 2012

BushBallad Meter

Informal name created by Mary Boren Sullivan, aka on Allpoetry.com.

Am adding it so others can have a go at a delightful metric experience.

OK, that's not the official name for it, but this particular rhyme scheme & metrical pattern echoes of thundering hooves, which makes me think of Banjo Paterson.  If you're stuck in iambic mode, it's a good way to break free.   

The form lends itself to light verse, but is versatile enough to support serious topics as well.  The meter is anapestic, as follows, presented in six-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme of aabccb.

ta da DUM / ta da DUM / da

ta DUM / ta da DUM / da

ta DUM /  ta da DUM / ta da DUM

If it feels more natural, you can substitute with an iamb for the first foot and/or move the feminine trailing syllables into the next line, like so ...

ta DUM / ta da DUM

ta da DUM / ta da DUM

ta da DUM /  ta da DUM / ta da DUM

Example Poem

Unfriended

My words are exacting 

yours simply distracting 

You argue in circles, at best.

You think that deceiving 

just  'cus you're believing 

Is okay, your  thinking is blessed.

      

Now, when you disparage 

an old friend's new marriage 

or put down another's good work

or put on two faces 

when speaking of races, 

you're behavior drives me berserk.

      

I'm mostly quite friendly, 

but  if in the end we

diverge so in our views, my friend,

though I'll still be mellow

and a jolly fellow,

I reckon our friendship will end.

© Lawrencealot - April, 2012

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Butterfly Quintet

This is a Butterfly Quintet created by Amanda Jean Norton

Stanza 1 is Iambic Pentameter rhyming abcbd

Stanza 2 is Iambic Tetrameter rhyming effe

Stanza 3 has 2 lines of Iambic Trimeter, Enveloped by 2 lines of Iambic Pentameter

The rhyming words are the same words in each set EGGE

Stanza 4 is Iambic Tetrameter rhyming hiih

Stanza 5 is Iambic Pentameter rhyming abcbd

Example Poem

Write a Butterfly Quintet

To write a Butterfly Quintet my pet

you place complex content in stanza one.

There's room internally to romp with rhyme

or sprinkle sparks of alliteration.

The same thing goes, by jive in stanza five.

In middle stanzas do your play.

These step more quickly, I believe;

less time to ponder, think or grieve.

First line next stanza have you say!

Expound your thesis here-- it's quite okay.

Exclaim your point right now.

Make emphasis some how.

The repeated words for that deed are okay.

Now butterfly, just flutter by.

Just play and give the air some shoves--

enjoyed wherever there are loves.

You light their hearts up butterfly.

Here the conclusion you'd most likely set,

with evidence supporting, now begun.

If playful theme there's still a  lot of time

To zig and zag, and twist the plot for fun.

Your muse can use this form to come alive.

© Lawrencealot  - July 2, 2012

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Byr a Thoddaid

Byr a Thoddaid (beer ah TOE-thy’d), one of the 24 traditional Welsh

stanza forms, consists of four lines of syllable count 10-6-8-8 

(or 8-8-10-6), rimed on last syllable except for the 10-syllable line,

 which has the main rime on the 7th, 8th, or 9th syllable with the 

remainder set off by dash and either rimed within the 6-syllable 

line or with its sequence of consonant-sounds repeated at the 

start of the 6-syllable line, as above.

This poem has the Cynghanedd (consonance, harmony of sound) 

required of Welsh bards, as detailed here:

http://allpoetry.com/column/7546199-Welsh_Poetry_-_Part_I_Cynghanedd_-by-Welshbard

Specifically, all but the last line of the first stanza 

and the penultimate line of the second have Cynghanedd lusg

(trailing consonance), in which the accented penultimate syllable

 of the end-word is rimed earlier in the line 

(the part of each 10-syllable line after the dash being excluded);

S1L4 and S2L3, then, both have Cynghanedd groes (cross-consonance),

 in which the second part of the line repeats the sequence of 

consonant sounds in the first (end of last syllable of either 

sequence can be ignored, as can n, while w and y the Welsh treat as vowels).

This form makes use of the gair cyrch in which the main rhyme appears somewhere near the end of a longer line and the end word is a secondary rhyme. The secondary rhyme is then echoed by alliteration or assonance in the first half of the next line.

• stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains made up of 2 couplets,
• syllabic, either L1-L2 8 syllables, L3 10 syllables L4 6 syllables, or the couplets are reversed L1 10 syllables, L2 6 syllables, L3-L4 8 syllables.
• rhymed, either AAbA with the main rhyme A occurring somewhere near the end of L3 and the secondary rhyme b echoed by alliteration or assonance in the first half of L4 or the couplets are reversed bAAA.

Example Poem

Potential

I know that my life's potent-- gauged not small-- 

gives notice of quotient 

believed not achieved to extent 

that make it thus, this man's intent .

Say I, one day still invent-- mankind's balm-- 

Might call on all unspent 

forces of mine formerly misspent 

then would I feel good and content? 

©  Lawrencealot - June 29,2012

Authors's Notes

This poem has the Cynghanedd (consonance, harmony of sound)

required of Welsh bards, as detailed here:

http://allpoetry.com/column/7546199-Welsh_Poetry_-_Part_I_Cynghanedd_-by-Welshbard

Specifically, all but the last line of the first stanza

and the penultimate line of the second have Cynghanedd lusg

(trailing consonance), in which the accented penultimate syllable

 of the end-word is rimed earlier in the line

(the part of each 10-syllable line after the dash being excluded);

S1L4 and S2L3, then, both have Cynghanedd groes (cross-consonance),

 in which the second part of the line repeats the sequence of

consonant sounds in the first (end of last syllable of either

sequence can be ignored, as can n, while w and y the Welsh treat as vowels).

Please note the correction suggested in the comments below and navigate there

for a fuller treatment of this form.

This correction by Gary Kent Spain, aka, Venicebard on Allpoetry.

You might want to alter the Cynghanedd part of your AN here (lifted from one of my poems, which is okay except it is inaccurate with respect to your poem) to reflect the slightly looser form of Cynghanedd Groes (and echoing of the gair cyrch) you have aimed for in this poem.  The following link gives for C. Groes the stipulation that all that is necessary is repetition of the initial consonants of words, which is close to what you've tried to do here:

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Cascade

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/cascade.html

Created by Udit Bhatia, the Cascade form "is all about receptiveness, but in a smooth cascading way like a waterfall". There is no set meter or rhyme scheme. The defining feature of the form is that the lines of the first stanza are repeated as refrain lines in subsequent stanzas to give a "cascading effect". S1 L1 is repeated as the last line of S2, S1 L2 is repeated as the last line of S3, and so on until all lines in S1 have been used. The number of stanzas is therefore one more than the number of lines in S1.

Example rhyme scheme for a three stanza Cascade: ABC deA fgB hiC 

 Example Poem

Write a Cascade

The cascade poem can grow in length and width. It's flexible.

If three lines in one stanza, then stanzas will add up to four.

That means a cascade can be used for many types of contests.

This is an example , a small sample, meter is ignored.

Allowing able alliteration,  but without end rhyme.

The cascade poem can grow in length and width. It's flexible.

You shall see in Cascade Two that rhyme was planned for and was used.

This monstrous, frigging thing  clamors for abundant verbiage.

If three lines in one stanza, then stanzas will add up to four.

Since this was didactic write, with no metaphor and image.

The flowing effect of my repeating lines might not appear.

That means a cascade can be used for many types of contests.

(c) Lawrencealot - April 22, 2012

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 This poem by Discoveria of AllPoetry

Haiga

A Haiga is a Haiku accompanied by a picture.

Related Forms: Alphabet Haiku,  Crystalline,  Haibun,  Haiga,  Haiku,  Haikuette,  Kimo, Lune, Pixiku, Rhaiku, Sijo, Ukiah, Zip

Catalectic Verse

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A catalectic line is a metrically incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. One form of catalexis is headlessness, where the unstressed syllable is dropped from the beginning of the line.
Making a meter cataletic can drastically change the feeling of the poem, and is often used to achieve a certain effect. Compare this selection from Book III of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" with that from W. H. Auden's "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love". The first is in trochaic tetrameter, and the second in trochaic tetrameter catalectic (or headless iambic tetrameter).
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
--H. W. Longfellow
Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
--W. H. Auden

Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalectic>


 Example Poem


Sheila sought the solace soon of Sam.
Harlots' hearts were hardened oft by men.
See, most men just didn't give a damn.
Sam loved legs and thighs and thighs again.
Sam, at four-oh-four did tip the scale.
Sheila weighed a bout one half of that.
She was standby fill-in piece of tail.
Sailor boys last night had called her fat!
Sam said," Shiela you are just right size.
You're the only woman here with thighs."

© Lawrencealot - May 22, 2012