Poetry Forms : Anaduo

Thursday, January 30, 2014

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.

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