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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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

Picture credit: google images, rights belong to photographer.

Her is a visual template that just happened to choose

Iambic tetrameter quatrains.