Cinquetin

• The Cinquetun (spelled Cinquetin in The Study and Writing of Poetry by Wauneta Hackleman) appears to be an invented verse form that is a longer version of the Crapsey Cinquain. It kind of defeats the purpose of the compactness of the original form, but then allows for broader images and an even meter. This verse form was created by E. Ernest Murrell.
  
  The Cinquetun is:
• a hexastich, a poem in 6 lines.
• syllabic, lines of 8-6-10-6-8-2 syllables each.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme axbaxb, x being unrhymed.

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

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

My Example Poem

Example Poem

Why This?     (Cinquetin)

For those who wish to hide their rime

the cinquetin should do.

All twice-removed they share not a line-length.

Asymmetry's no crime

but humans don't consider it

a strength.

© Lawrencealot - March 13, 2013

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The Balance

• The Balance attempts to create an ebb and flow rhythm. The rhythm is created by a specific syllabic designation per line as well as an intricate rhyme scheme. This verse form was created by Viola Berg.
  
  The Balance is:
• stanzaic, framed in 4 cinquains. The patterns of the cinquains change from stanza to stanza.
• syllabic,
  stanza 1 =10-8-6-4-2 syllables.
  stanza 2 =2-4-6-8-10 syllables
  stanza 3 =10-8-6-4-2 syllables
  stanza 4 = 2-4-6-8-10 syllables
• rhymed, rhyme scheme Abcde edcba abcde edcbA.
• composed with a refrain, the 1st line of the poem is repeated as the last line.
  Short Balance by Judi Van Gorder
  
  Centered on the page the words resonate
  with sounds of fingers striking
  the computer keyboard.
  Tapping into
  my muse.
  
  Good news,
  the verse in due
  time takes shape, strikes a chord
  without inspiration spiking.
  Centered on the page the words resonate.

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

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

My Sample Poem

Fish wrap is Functional    (The Balance)

The paper tells of babies being born,

while businesses are formed and fold,

and folks grow old and die,

while other's kill

or cheat

to beat

other's for thrill

or just because they're high.

The earth's getting too hot or cold;

associations steer and hold in scorn

those men who break from ranks and won't adorn

concepts as right, because they're old.

Opinions satisfy,

candidates will

just tweet

or greet

with smarmy skill

while business goes awry

and we the sheeple, are controlled.

The paper tells of babies being born.

© Lawrencealot - March 7, 2014

Baccresiezé

Pathways for the Poet by Viola Berg (1977) appears to be a book for educators. Classic poetic forms as well as many invented forms that can be used as teaching tools or exercises for use in workshops or classrooms are included. Some of these invented forms I have found in use in internet poetry communities, a testament to their staying power. On this page I include the syllabic invented forms found therein which appear to be exclusive to the community of educators from whom Ms. Berg drew her support. I have yet to find these in any other source. I have included the metric invented forms on a separate page. Whether classroom exercise or sharpening your skill as a writer, some of these forms can be fun to play with.

• Baccresiezé is an invented form, apparently created as an exercise in repetition. This verse form has two and a half different refrains. It is attributed to E. Ernest Murell.
  
  The Baccresiezé is:
• stanzaic, written in 3 quatrains.
• syllabic, L1,L2,L3 are 8 syllables and L4 is 4 syllables.
• refrained, L4 of each quatrain is a refrain and L1 of the first quatrain is repeated as L3 in the 2nd quatrain. The last 4 syllables of L1 are repeated as the last 4 syllables of L2 in the first quatrain only.
• rhymed, with a complicated rhyme scheme AaxB bxAB xxxB x being unrhymed.
  The Will by by Judi Van Gorder
  
  ---------------I read of love, undying love,
  what does that mean, undying love?
  A rose withers, a blossom falls,
  --------------- what lives will die.
  Love is a will, a rush, a sigh,
  a touch, a cry, a hope, a rock.
  I read of love, undying love,
  --------------- what lives will die.
  Blush of new love we know must fade
  replaced in time with trust and grace.
  In rest, I will my love remain.
  -------------- What lives will die.

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My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for her wonderful PMO resource.

Syllabic 8/8/8/4

Stanzaic Three Quatrains

Refrain

Larry at 3/5/2014 7:30 PM

Corrected Rhyme Pattern:  AA1xB bxAB xxxB   x being unrhymed

My Sample Poem

And Yet We Lived    (Baccresiezé)

We walked across the hot asphalt

bare feet imprint the hot asphalt

embedding footprints in the road

-----------------when we were boys.

Strange things we found became our toys

and after wading in canals

We walked across the hot asphalt

------------------when we were boys.

We drank from hoses, slept outside,

and rode for miles two on one bike.

We never owned a helmet once

---------------when we were boys.

© Lawrencealot - March 5, 2014

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The Anacreontic Ode

The Ode / Greek PoetryThe Anacreontic Ode is proof that an ode need not be long and lofty. The Greek poet Anacreon often wrote odes in praise of pleasure and drink, a Dithyramb or Skolion. Often the odes were made up of 7 syllable, rhymed couplets known as Anacreontic couplets. Some of Anacreon's poems were paraphrased by English poet Abraham Cowley in 1656 in which he attempted to emulate Greek meter. The main concern of several 17th century poets was that the poem avoid "piety" by "Christian" poets who would tame the spirit and make the form worthless. Although the Anacreontic Ode has been defined as a series of Anacreontic couplets, Richard Lovelace's The Grasshopper is thought to be a translation of an Ode by Anacreon, it does fit the subject matter but the translation is written in iambic pentameter quatrains with alternating rhyme.

 The Anacreontic couplet is named for the ancient Greek poet Anacreon who tended to write short lyrical poems celebrating love and wine, a genre known as Dithyramb. By 1700 English poet John Phillips defined the form to be written in 7 syllable rhyming couplets.

The Anacreontic couplet is:

• stanzaic, written in any number of couplets,
• preferably short. The Anacreontic Ode is often made up of a series of Anacreontic couplets.
• syllabic, 7 syllables for each line.
• rhymed. aa bb etc.
• composed to celebrate the joys of drinking and love making. Some Anacreontic verse tends toward the erotic or bawdy.
  

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My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful PMO site.  It is a wonderful resource.

My try at this form:

Elbow Tango    (Anacreontic Ode)

Come and share with me a brew,

or better yet more than two.

Drink in smiles before you go

exercising your elbow.

We can sit on stool or bench,

drink and flirt with serving wench

with fine limbs and rounded ass-

her charms grow with every glass.

Likely, we'll go home alone

but fine memories we'll own.

© Lawrencealot - March 3, 2014

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Tanaga

Thanks to Judi Van Groder for the wonderful resource at PMO.

• The Tanaga is a Filipino stanzaic form that was originally written in Tagolog which to my ear is one of the more musical of languages. (Kumusta ka? Mabuti salam at) The form dates back to the 16th century and has an oral tradition. The poems are not titled. Each is emotionally charged and asks a question that begs an anwer. This form was found at Kaleidoscope.
  
  The Tanaga is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
• syllabic, 7-7-7-7 syllables per line.
• rhymed, originally aaaa bbbb cccc etc., modern Tanagas also use aabb ccdd etc or abba cddc etc or any combination rhyme can be used.
• composed with the liberal use of metaphor.
• untitled.

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My Example Poem

    (Tanaga)

Casually boys contemplate,

Carefully they cogitate,

what will they appreciate

when they're searching for a mate?

Will she need to cook and sew?

I suspect the answer's no.

Will she need to use a wrench,

or speak Mandarin or French?

Need she work with quilting thread,

or perform with brush or pen?

I think I'll say no again-

if she pleases him in bed.

© Lawrencealot - March 3, 2014

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Note: For example only I used one of each rhyme pattern here.

Awit

The Awit is a Filipino poetry form explained below by Judi Van Gorder

On her wonderful PMO resource site:

• Awit literally means song. This stanzaic form seems very similar to the Tanaga. It is unique in that a stanza should be one complete, grammatically correct, sentence.
  
  The Awit is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
• a narrative, it tells a story.
• dodecasyllabic, 12 syllables per line, there is usually a pause after the 6th syllable.
• rhymed, each stanza mono-rhymed aaaa bbbb cccc etc.
• composed with each stanza representing a complete, grammatically correct, sentence.
• composed liberally using various figures of speech.
• written anonymously.

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My example of a single stanza poem

The Climb     (Awit)

I started up the hills, intending on that day

to climb like deer to plateaus where the rocks gave way

to grasses lush and green, above where wild hawks play,

and ended up on top- above all human fray.

© Lawrencealot - March 3, 2014

Classical Hendecasyllable

Type:	Line, Metrical Requirement
Description:	This is a trochee, a dactyl, and three trochees. The first and last trochees can be spondees.
Origin:	Greek
Schematic:	XX Xxx Xx Xx XX or  Xx Xxx Xx Xx Xx
Line/Poem Length:	11
See Also:	Accentual-Syllabic Verse, Classical Pentameter, Dactyl, Quantitative Verse,Spondee, Strambotto (Sicilian), Trochee
Status:	Incomplete

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Thanks to Charles for the wonderful resource above, which after investigation is frequently the only one I need.

I found these in quatrains with abab rhyme, and in a single 15 line unrhymed stanza by Robert Frost. "For Once, Then, Something" the only such he ever wrote in this form.

Example Poem

Extinguished          (Classical Hendecasyllable)

Glowing embers ignite when fanned with ardour

left alone they conserve by self-containment.

Love's lost heat can be flamed by trying harder

Or, ignored and then settled by arraignment.

(c) Lawrencealot - March 2, 2014

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