Badger's Hexastitch

This form was found on PoetryMagnumOpus with the information below.  I will give full attribution to the creator when I can.

Badger's Hexastich is a fun variation of the Crapsey Cinquain invented by out own Badger. It simply expands the cinquain to another line and 2 more syllables.

Badger's Hexastich is:

• a poem in 6 lines.
• syllabic, 2-4-6-6-4-2.

• unrhymed, optional rising and falling end-words.
  

reading, rooted in mind, not tasting ripe berries, the oozing summer scent, window open, waiting ~~Phil Wood

First flight, small granddaughter visits Grandma with Dad, Mom, brother and sisters in soccer play-offs back home. --Judi Van Gorder

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Related forms: Baxter's Hexastitch, Butterfly Cinquain, Cinquino, Crapsey Cinquain, CinqCinquain, Cinquain Chain, Cinquain Swirl,  Didactic Cinquain, Mirror Cinquain, Oddquain Butterfly, Standard Cinquain 

My Example Poem

Growing

Fall down

consider tears--

crawl to where grandpa sits

grab onto grandpa's leg

grin like a fox--

stand up

© Lawrencealot - February 16, 2014

Pentibrach

It is so named because of the unique metric foot proposed by

its creator Glenn Meisenheimer, known on Allpoetry as gmcookie.

He proposed a five syllable metric foot with only the center syllable being accented.  Because of its resemblance to an amphibrach with

And unaccented syllable affixed to each end, I named this the pentibrach.   If scholars find a precedent we will of course bow to an established usage.

The poem is stanzaic, consisting of at least two quatrains.

It is syllabic: 10/9/10/7

It uses external rhyme, rhyming the last line of each stanza. (xxxa)

I realize there are alternative options to provide a metric schema, but I shall use the authors own presentation, and define here the metric feet to be used:

The pentibrach:             da da DUM da da

The secundus paeon:    da DUM da da

The iamb:                        da DUM

Each stanza is formed thus:

L1 & L3      two pentibrach feet

L2               a pentibrach followed by a secundus paeon

L4               a pentibrach followed by an iamb   

The author's original poem.

Kandahar

As the shadows fall and the daylight fades

And the owl flirts with the whippoorwill,

In that twilight time when the nightingale

Sings his love songs to the stars,

You will find me here in the umbral dark

As I wend through trees and monuments,

In the gloaming dusk when the sunlight fades

And when Jupiter joins Mars.

It is only then, from this cursed ground,

There is strength in my soliloquy,

As I raise my voice on the evening breeze

And I sing my ghost-thin bars.

It's an ancient tune yet a timely one

Of a sailor washed ashore near here

Who was buried deep in this Christian soil

Far away from Kandahar.

My Attempt at one:

Entranced     (Pentibrach)

As she stretched her arms to the morning's dim

and her curvature delighted me

 I assumed that I'm just a blessed guy

who was honored here by chance.

The is nothing that would predict that I

should be met on earth by goddesses

or be catered to by the likes of her. 

Don't awake me from this trance.

© Lawrencealot - February 15, 2014

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Chaucerian Roundel

Chaucerian Roundel

The Chaucerian roundel was developed by (obviously) Chaucer from (less obviously) the rondel rather than the roundel - not that there's a huge amount of difference.  This example is dedicated to the Athenian gentleman who, in an e-mail, described my website as a "labor of love" (yes, it was Athens, Georgia).

Ambition

I'd like to do this all the time.
It doesn't pay, but I confess
I love my day job rather less.

I'm tiring of the search for rhyme
And reason in life's heaving mess.
I'd like to do this all the time.

A poet's life must be sublime.
Those lucky few the gods would bless
Breathe only poetry. Oh yes,
I'd like to do this all the time.

As with the rondel etc, there is a refrain, the first line being repeated at the end of the second and third stanzas. The rhyming scheme is Abb; abA; abbA, where the capital A's denote the repetition of entire lines. No particular line length or metre is required.

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My Thanks to Bob Newman for the wonderful resources at Volecentral.

The Chaucerian Roundel is closer to the French Rondel than the English Roundel. It is named for its originator Geoffrey Chaucer who has been said to write his Knight's tale in the roundel, the rondel and the rondeau (take your pick). This verse form was found at Vol Central

The Chaucerian Roundel is:

• a decastich, made up of 2 tercets followed by a quatrain.
• written in no particular line length or meter although the form is often written in lines of equal length. Iambic tetrameter or pentameter lines are common.
• rhymed Abb abA abbA , the A is a refrain.
• composed with a refrain; L1 is repeated as a refrain in L6 and L10.

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My Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful resource at PMO.

My Example Poem

Could Be     (Chaucerian Roundel)

Could be our troubles are a state of mind,

could be that they're imposed and very real,

like acts of God that man cannot appeal.

But social troubles I suspect you'll find

depend to great extent on how you feel,

could be our troubles are a state of mind.

If one decides to leave ones woes behind

and acts accordingly with honest zeal

he'll find that other's slights are no big deal;

could be our troubles are a state of mind.

© Lawrencealot - February 12, 2014

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(note: although line length and meter are not required,

  this is set up for iambic pentameter)

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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Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful PMO resource.

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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Teddy Poem

Teddy Poem

Type:	Structure, Subject, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement, Isosyllabic
Description:	A fixed form of three six-line verses summed up by an orphan couplet. All lines are in alexandrines. Rhyme scheme is aabbcc. There is an additional starter line which is, “Many, many years ago when Teddy was much younger than today...” The starter line occasionally varies slightly. The topic of these poems is always the adventures of a certain Theodore E. Bear, or Teddy as he is better known, who was created in the Garden of Eden, and having found the Fountain of Youth is immortal and eternally youthful.
Attributed to:	“The Dread Poet Roberts”
Origin:	American
Schematic:	Rhyme and line pattern: x aabbcc ddeeff gghhii jj Meter: xX xX xX xX xX xX, or xxxxxxxxxxxx
Rhythm/Stanza Length:	6
Line/Poem Length:	21
Reference:	Reference Link
See Also:	Alexandrine, Beast Epic

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My Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for this most complete description that I could find.

Example Poem and Visual Template

Ode to Theodore E. Bear     (Teddy Poem)

Many, Many years ago when Teddy was much younger than today…

For many, many, years- and I have now lost count

young Theodore E. Bear, went searching for the fount!

The fountain that he found- it grants perpetual youth.

He's  been around forever- should be long of tooth.

That he has found it- any children will attest,

as silently he speaks, and puts them to their rest.

He dresses up in dresses, or may wear a bow.

He doesn't mind cross-dressing, that much all of us know.

He may don a railroad cap or a Smokey hat,

or 'bear' soft messages, that tell of this and that.

He's never embarrassed to go nude as it were

and sit about quite proudly, wearing only fur.

He goes with first responders - he's most often there-

to mitigate the panic- temper their despair.

While firemen fight the blaze- before the clean-up starts,

kids will cling to Teddy, a balm for frightened hearts.

If they sustain an "Owie",that requires a shot-

with Teddy there the pin-prick's pain is soon forgot.

And when things are all peachy, Teddy you will find

as husband's ways of saying "Thanks I'm glad you're mine."

© Lawrencealot - February 8, 2014


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Rimas Dissolutas

This was originally a French form

 The form is isosyllabic  (all lines have the same number of syllables)

There is no metric requirement

There is no line length requirement

There is no stanza length requirement

There is no rhyming permitted within a stanza

Each stanza must be like each other stanza

(same number of syllables, meter if any ,line length)

Line n in each stanza must rhyme with the same line in each other stanza. (External Rhyme)  

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The Rimas Dissolutas is a French troubadouric verse (12th-13th centuries) in which unrhymed stanzas rhyme line by line with all of the other stanzas. This was a departure from the strict rhyme schemes of the day. The rhyme is there but it is more subtle.

The Rimas Dissolutas is:

• stanzaic, written in any # of uniform length stanzas, all quatrains or all tercets or all sixains etc.
• in keeping with most old French forms the verse is syllabic. One site suggests it is isosyllabic meaning all lines have the same number syllables, number of syllables at the discretion of the poet.
• unrhymed lines within the stanza.
• rhymed lines between stanzas.
• sometimes written with an envoi which would be half the number of lines of the stanzas using the rhyme of the later lines of the stanzas.
  
  If the poem was written in sixains the rhyme would look like this:
  

Stanza 1 x x x x x a x x x x x b x x x x x c x x x x x d x x x x x e

Add'l Stanzas x x x x x a x x x x x b x x x x x c x x x x x d x x x x x e

Envoi... x x x x x c  x x x x x d

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Thanks to Ms.  Van Gorder for the find PMO resorce.

Rimas Dissolutas (Troubadouric song)

I was delighted to discover recently that this was recognised - in some quarters, anyway - as a standard form, and had a name. In rimas dissolutas, the stanzas are all similar, and all use the same rhymes. The first lines all rhyme with each other, the second lines all rhyme with each other, and so on. These are all external rhymes; there are no rhymes between lines in the same stanza. 

The blessed Malcovati calls this form the troubadouric song, giving it as the only member of a category of open forms he calls coblas unissonantis (a Provençal term which he assures us is in common use). It is normal, he tells us, for there to be an envoi, shorter than the other stanzas but rhyming with the latter part of them.

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Thanks to Bob Newman for the Wonderful Resource Site.

Example Poem

Groceries    (Rimas  Dissolutas)

We touch and kiss and hold and hug,

and work to earn our daily bread.

Our foodstuff's ready in the store -

our meat our milk our wines our cake.

A small bird looking for a bug

about to be a meal instead

we breed to fatten, kill, and more

are we more proper than the snake?

© Lawrencealot - February 7, 2014

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Iambic tetrameter quatrains.

Soft-Songed Tercet

Soft-Songed Tercet

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement, Simple
Description:	This form has four requirements. It is iambic. The schema is: xxxxxa xxxxxbxxxxxb xxxxxa There must be an unusual image or turn of phrase. It must have a soft feel to it. There is also a multi-stanza form called the soft-songed triplet.
Schematic:	Rhyme/Syllable: xxxxxa xxxxxbxxxxxb xxxxxa Meter: xX xX xX

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Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for the wonderful resource.

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• Soft Songed Tercet is an invented verse form found at Poetry Base that has an unusual request, the verse must have a "soft feel".
  
  The Soft Songed Tercet is:
• a tristich, a poem in 3 lines. When written in more than one tercet the form is oddly named the Soft Songed Triplet. ("Tercet" is 3 line unit as is a "triplet", both of which can be written in any number within a poem. The words are often used interchangeably however, the classic English "triplet" is usually monorhymed. So technically the name Soft Songed Tercet properly should apply to both a single tristich or the stanzaic form of any number of tercets.)
• metered, iambic, L1 &L3 are trimeter, L2 is hexameter.
• rhymed, rhymed a(bb)a L2 has internal rhyme.
• composed with an unusual image.
• composed with a "soft feel".
  x x x x x a
  x x x x x b x x x x x b
  x x x x x a
  
  Furry Fix by jvg
  
  Silky fluff warms my palm
  as I cup a small plump rabbit waiting to jump
  free. Its fine fur a balm.

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Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful resource.

Example Poem

Fluppet

So fluffy I've been made

I'll bring your daughter joy - become her favorite toy,

she'll never be afraid.

© Lawrencealot - February 6, 2014

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