Amphion

• Amphion, another 20th century American verse form invented as a teaching tool. It alternates tetrameter lines with dimeter lines, created byViola Berg.

The Amphion is:
○ a 10 line poem.
○ metered, tetrameter lines alternate with sets of rhymed dimeter couplets.
○ Rhymed, rhyme scheme  abbaccdeed.

Super Bowl Sunday by Judi Van Gorder

A day of football at its end,
the bowls of chips
and gooey dips.
Emotions now are on the mend
the ups and downs
the fan base clowns.
The black and gold have got the win,
the players crow,
the losers go
their loss is carried on the chin.

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Example Poem

Bar Bully Ballet (Amphion)

He sits there staring at his drink.
his life is bad
and he's so sad
A bully entered-- what'd ya think?
He grabbed the glass
He's such an ass--
The sad guy cries he is so blue.
"Damn all's gone wrong,
"Twas my swan song--
Then this ass drank my poisoned brew! "

© Lawrencealot -November 26,2013


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Rondine

The Rondine is:

 a poem in 12 lines made up of a septet and ending in a quintet.

 syllabic 8 syllables per line except L7 and L12 which are 4 syllables each. 

 In English metered, most often iambic tetrameter except the refrain which is iambic dimeter.

 composed with a refrain repeated from the opening phrase of the poem, rentrement.

 rhymed, using only 2 rhymes except for the refrain being unrhymed, 

 rhyme scheme abba,aabR, abbaR (R being the refrain)

NOTE: The rhyme may be sight rhyme, slant rhyme, or assonance

ALSO NOTE:  This form found frequently WITH MORE that EIGHT Syllable

As in the example below.

http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1382> 

This is another very neglected and a very challenging poetry form. It consists of two stanzas, a septet (7 lines), and a quintet (5 lines), making the poem a total of 12 lines.There is a refrain which mimics the first phrase of the first line. R.

The Rondine has a rhyme scheme of, 

(R a). b. b. a. a. b. R....a. b. b. a. R.

The meter is open with the French style and not bound by a rhyming pattern and is a more light and buoyant even "flashy" form of poetry which uses short lines, whereas the English is more formal and uses Tetrameter or Pentameter.

Here is an example by Wesli Court.

http://thepoetsgarret.com/2009Challenge/form9.html>

Example Poem

Write a Rondine

Here's my Rondine, my very first .

With practice I'll get better yet.

There is not much I should forget.

The rhymes are decently dispersed.

Find five alike, then dive headfirst.

Now have I, your interest whet?

Here's my Rondine.

Choose words so refrain's not coerced.

It ties the poem don't forget,

from start to end refrain's abet

a singularity well versed.

Here's my Rondine.

© Lawrencealot - April 2012

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English Ballet (bal-lett)

English Ballet (bal-lett)
stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains or quintains.
(The quatrains can be expanded to quintains by breaking L1 of each stanza into 2 lines at the end of the first phrase.)
Metered when quatrains, L1-L3 tetrameter, L4 dimeter.
 Rhymee Pattern: aaaB cccB dddB, etc.
Metered when quintains, L1, L2, and L5 dimeter, L3 & L4 tetrameter.
Rhyme Pattern: AbbbA AcccA AdddA, etc.


Description of form a copy & paste from PoetryMagnumOpus.com
http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=2247


Example Poem

Fall They Must (English Ballet - Quintains)

The snowflakes fall
so powder dry,
they seem but dust upon the sky
unseen 'til on the ground they lie
The snowflakes fall.

The snowflakes fall
in twisting flight
large enough to hold when they light
on mittens to view with delight.
The snowflakes fall.

The snowflakes fall
They're big and wet.
They taste good on my tongue, and yet
I'll hate to shovel them I'll bet.
The snowflakes fall.

   © Lawrencealot - December 23, 2012


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Rondine

The Rondine is:
 a poem in 12 lines made up of a quatrain, a tercet and ending in a quintet.
 syllabic 8 syllables per line except L7 and L12 which are 4 syllbles each.
 In English metered, most often iambic tetrameter except the refrain which is iambic dimeter.
 composed with a refrain repeated from the opening phrase of the poem, rentrement.
 rhymed, using only 2 rhymes except for the refrain being unrhymed,
 rhyme scheme abba,aabR, abbaR (R being the refrain)
NOTE: The rhyme may be sight rhyme, slant rhyme, or assonance
ALSO NOTE:  This form found frequently WITH MORE that EIGHT Syllable
As in the example below.
http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1382>

 This is another very neglected and a very challenging poetry form. It consists of two stanzas, a septet (7 lines), and a quintet (5 lines), making the poem a total of 12 lines.There is a refrain which mimics the first phrase of the first line. R.
The Rondine has a rhyme scheme of,
(R a). b. b. a. a. b. R....a. b. b. a. R.
The meter is open with the French style and not bound by a rhyming pattern and is a more light and buoyant even "flashy" form of poetry which uses short lines, whereas the English is more formal and uses Tetrameter or Pentameter.
Here is an example by Wesli Court.
http://thepoetsgarret.com/2009Challenge/form9.html>

Example Poem

Here's my Rondine, my very first .
With practice I'll get better yet.
There is not much I should forget.
The rhymes are decently dispersed.
Find five alike, then dive headfirst.
Now have I, your interest whet?
Here's my Rondine.

Choose words so refrain's not coerced.
It ties the poem don't forget,
from start to end refrain's abet
a singularity well versed.
Here's my Rondine.

(c) Lawrencealot - August 16, 2012




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