Double Seven

This interesting form was created by Lisa La Grange of Allpoetry.

It is stanzaic, consisting of any number of quatrains.

Each quatrain will have its own abab rhyme pattern,

Where the a-rhymes will always be feminine.

It is isosyllabic, each line being seven syllable.

It is metric, each line having two metric feet, the first foot being four syllables, and the second foot being three syllables.

The a-rhyme lines consist of a secundus paeon + an amphibrach: da DUM da da / da DUM da

The b-rhyme lines consist of a tertius paeon + an anapest

 da da DUM da / da da DUM

So the meter of a stanza is thus:

da DUM da da da DUM da

da da DUM da, da da DUM

da DUM da da da DUM da

da da DUM da da da DUM

Example Poem

Just-Married(Double Seven)

I wonder if the bridegroom

has accepted yet the fact

that access to the bathroom

will be science, inexact.

I she wants to go shopping

and he's planned a poker game,

I think that he'll be copping

friends a plea they'll know is lame.

But he may find his laundry

looks much better than before

and find there is no quandary

for it's him she does adore.

© Lawrencealot - February 24, 2014

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Where the red letters indicate lines with feminine rhyme.

LaGrange Quatrain

 La Grange Quatrain created by Lisa La Grange of AllPoetry

Syllabic 8/7/8/7                        

Rhymed: abab                        

Meter: Anapestic

dee dee DUM dee, dee dee DUM dee                                

dee dee DUM dee, dee dee DUM                                

dee dee DUM dee, dee dee DUM dee                                

dee dee DUM dee, dee dee DUM

Note alternating feminine and masculine rhymes.

 Example Poem

Forfeited Opportunity     (La Grange Quatrain)

Undeserved, he's still receiving

approbation from the left.

While the right is past deceiving

and he forces wide the cleft.

A white guilt, earned by grandfathers

and augmented by black pride

brought to office one who bothers

not at all laws to abide.

Our first black to claim the title

has mis-used the office throne

gaining wealth as though entitled.

redistributes what's our own.

Were I black I'd be resenting

the destruction he's allowed;

this historic representing

should have made all races proud.

© Lawrencealot - November 2,2013

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Ridotto

This form was invented by Thomas Horton of Allpoetry.

It's called a RIDOTTO, from the Italian for "reduced."  In a ridotto, you choose a number of syllables for your first line (x).  Your second line should be a perfect rhyming couplet with one more syllable (x+1).  The third line takes on a new rhyme, and has one fewer syllable than the first one (x-1).  Line four rhymes with line 3, and has one fewer syllable (x, or [x-1]+1).  This continues until the poem is reduced to a couplet of one syllable followed by two.

Here's an example:

FIRST KISS  (a ridotto)

The way the soft light broke          ----> (6)

Through the branches of the oak       ----> (7)

Gave the day a glow                   ----> (5)

That you and I would know             ----> (6)

Brought to an end                     ----> (4)

Our time to pretend                   ----> (5)

And we shared                         ----> (3)

Though we were scared                 ----> (4)

Desire                                ----> (2)

Like a fire                           ----> (3)

Rife                                  ----> (1)

With life                             ----> (2)

© Thomas Horton, All Rights Reserved.

You may start with any number of syllables you like; as such, the poem may be of any length, as long was the second line of each rhyming couplet has one more syllable than the first line, and the first line of each subsequent couplet has one fewer syllable than the first line of the previous couplet.

Near rhymes don't count; all end-rhymes should be full/strong/masculine.

Pasted from <http://allpoetry.com/contest/2603301-RIDOTTO_A_new_rhyme-and-meter_form_>

I have re-phrased the instructions thus:

1. Pen a line with any number of syllables.

2. For the next line, add one syllable and rhyme with the preceding line.

3. Subtract two syllables and choose a new rhyme word.

4. For the next line, add one syllable and rhyme with the preceding line.

Repeat instructions 1 thru 4 until you compose a two syllable line.

Rhyme pattern  aabbccddee..etc

No metric requirement.

Example Poem

Sapience   

To students I've become a  bore!

Sapience has chilled me to my core.*

Their indifference dismays.

They only seek their peers' okays.

A poem's nothing neat

compared to sexting or tweet.

What set me aglow

they'll never learn or know.

They are not taught

to pursue true thought

A drone's job

will suit the mob.

Oh well

What the hell?

So

I know?

(c) Lawrencealot - May 15, 2013

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Awdl Gywydd

Awdl Gywydd

Type: structure, meter, rhyme, stanzaic.

Description: Pronounced ‘owdl gow-widd’. Seven syllable quatrains with end rhymes and couplet binding. Welsh origin.

Schema:

xxxxxxa

xxaxxxb (a can be 3rd or 4th syllable)

xxxxxxc

xxcxxxb (c can be 3rd or 4th syllable)

Mid-line rhymes a and c can be various forms of rhyme but the end of line rhyme b should be perfect rhyme.

Stanza Length: quatrain.

Pasted from <http://paintingpoetrypoeticforms.blogspot.com/2008/10/awdl-gywydd.html> 

Example Poem

Midnight Ride When Full of Beer

At the game I took a chance

then at the dance I drank more.

After the twelfth beer of mine

I was supine on the floor.

They gave me hot coffee sips

which burned my lips but woke me

up so I could drink some more.

and made me sure want to pee.

After irrigating long,

the jukebox song seemed too loud.

I had the bartender send

beer to a friend in the crowd.

We both drank more; both got drunk.

Who would have thunk?  Just on beer?

When the bar closed I was stoned

so help was phoned, have no fear.

"You can't drive.  There's not a chance.

The Beerbulance is waiting.

Along with the sodden maid

we're all afraid you're dating."

 © Lawrencealot - February 14, 2013

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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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Intermirroral

This is a form invented by Mark Andrew J Terry
These are the requirements of this form:
Rhyme Pattern: aabb 
Meter: None specified.
Couplet One:
Every word in the first line should rhyme with the corresponding word in line 2
Except for one word; those words must have contrary meanings, but same syllable count.

It can be expanded as far as you wish.
These are the requirements for a Sestet:
Rhyme Pattern: aabbcc

Meter: None specified.
Couplet One and Two:
Every word in the first line should rhyme with the corresponding word in line 2
Except for one word; those words must have contrary meanings, but same syllable count
Couplet Three:
Ends with mirrored rhyme, but also has internal rhyme


Example Poem

Party Time

Alluring tart proffering wile.
Demurring lass deferring guile.

Bewitching twit assures relief.
Enriching wit insures belief.

No way to stay the party game.
I'll try to buy the hearty dame.

© Lawrencealot - May 27, 2012

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Loose Sapphic

There are variations of the Sapphic Stanza and I have chosen the Loose Sapphic form created by Marie Marshall. The form is composed over four lines, the first three being hendecasyllabic and the fourth being pentasyllabic.

The focus is on syllabic meter rather than accentual giving the poet more room to explore poetical device and grammatical schema within the verse structure. From the creator's own examples I have found the poems to be more vibrant and dramatic than their strictly metric counterparts.

Using 'X' to represent each syllable the schema of the Loose Sapphic form can be shown as thus:


X X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X

Example Poem

Lady Bird Adrift

My intent to fly by-and-by was boosted.

I'm content to flutter by the butterfly

effect.  Some butterfly in Balboa flapped

boldly days ago.

A seagull here an eagle there added puffs

against the calm.  A heated hillside thermal

energy aggregated puff-puff forces-

calm contingencies.

I'll leave Louise and Lester nibbling aphid

nosh, and catch this seed in transit through garden's

wide expanse.  I may deplane any time or

merely take a chance.

I'm smarter than your average bug because a

beetle, not a bug be I.  This subterfuge

could save my life-- wasps find me tasty and look

to see just me fly. 

© Lawrencealot - June 26, 2012

Monotetra

The monotetra is a new poetic form developed by Michael Walker. Each stanza contains four lines in monorhyme. Each line is in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a total of eight syllables. What makes the monotetra so powerful as a poetic form, is that the last line contains two metrical feet, repeated. It can have as few as one or two stanzas, or as many as desired.

Stanza Structure:

Line 1: 8 syllables; A1

Line 2: 8 syllables; A2

Line 3: 8 syllables; A3

Line 4: 4 syllables, repeated; A4, A4 

Example Poem

Collaboration

My gramp brought me a valentine.

To give to mommy and it's just fine.

I'm four years old and it's all mine.

A valentine. A valentine.

It's got a heart and teddy bear

To show my mom how much I care.

A tiny voice came from nowhere,

"I've got no flair." "I've got no flair."

Somehow that card said words to me.

"I'm not as fine as I can be.

I need more personality"

that she can see, that she can see."

"With your help lad, I'll be much more.

I'll be a card that she'll adore."

I'll not be common anymore!

Accept this chore.  Accept this chore."

With a crayon I wrote just "my"

after "Mom".   She is my own, that's why.

I signed Tommy then heard card sigh.

I don't know why, I don't know why.

The card she's kept for all this time.

A priceless card that cost a dime.

Mom says I made the value climb

with my first rhyme, with my first rhyme.

© Lawrencealot - February 9, 2013

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Partenza Represa

The Partenza Represa created by: Dawn Slanker
It contains any number of four line stanzas which can rhyme or not rhyme
depending on preference. The most important features of this form are that
it maintains strict syllable line count of your choosing:
8*6*8*6, 8*8*8*8, 10*10*10*10, etc...and that each line must begin
(anywhere you like) with the last portion of the preceding line.
Also, it's important to point out that you have the option of either
continuing the first line of each stanza with a refrain from the line
preceding it or you may choose to begin an entirely new line for each stanza.
IMHO that makes this one of the most versatile forms I have yet addressed:

Any meter, any line length, any or no rhyme, word refrains

No template required.  See poem listed for example.


Example Poem

They Fart Melodies

Some folks believe their shit don't stink.
Their shit don't  stink, some people think.
Some people think, It seems to  me,
It seems to me- You may agree.

Suggest they've faltered and you'll see.
You'll see amazment- "What?  Not me!
Not me, the fault is in your view.
Your  view if critical-- untrue!"

Their poop's foil-wrapped, it has no smell.
It has no smell, a fool can tell.
A  fool can tell they're always right.
They're always right; therein's our plight.

Fawn, applaud, and give them respect.
Respect even what's not correct.
Correct them once and you'll be banned.
You'll be banned: You don't understand

 © Lawrencealot - April 30, 2012

Paulo Comitatu

This is a poetry form created by Allen R.  Emery,  aka Joe King on Allpoetry.com.

I call this form paulo comitatu, "Little Train". It is like an engine then three other cars. 

Line 1 of each verse in Iambic Tetrameter

Lines 2-4 are Iambic trimeter.

The trimeter lines share mono-rhyme.

Stanza patters are you choice, the template shows three possibles:

x, a, a, a. 

x, b, b, b. 

or

a, b, b, b

a, c, c, c

d, e, e, e

d, f, f, f

Etc

a, b, b, b,

a b, b, b,    

c, d, d, d, 

c, d, d, d.    

Poem Example

Sketch a Man

A man wants many things in life. 

He wants security, 

he needs identity, 

and wants fidelity. 

He wants not just a faithful wife, 

but certainty from all, 

in matters large and small 

when friends and family call.

One having such, can actualize 

and act not just for him, 

but laugh and joke on whim, 

and smile when hopes are dim. 

Foremost it comes as no surprise 

her touch, her talk, her care 

the ideas that they share 

will take man anywhere. 

     © Lawrencealot - December 27, 2012

Romantic Stanza

The Romantic Stanza is named for the poem Venus the Star by Maksim Bahdanovic, Belarus 1891-1917. The poem was originally titled "Romance" 1912 until it was published as lyrics to a song in 1930. It is distinguished by the use of a rentrament, the first phrase of L1 repeated as a refrain in L4 similar to the French Rondeau. The difference is that each quatrain has its own rentrament.

  

Romantic stanza

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
Description:	Alternating quatrains of basically dactylic meter where lines one and three have eleven syllables, line two has ten, and line four is the first seven syllables of line one.
Attributed to:	Maksim Bahdanovic, stanza so named by Bob Newman
Origin:	Belarus
Schematic:	Rhyme: (Ba)baB Meter: Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx Xxx Xxx Xxx X Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx Xxx Xxx X
Starting Point:	With each quatrain, start with the first/last line, since that line establishes your rhymes.

Pasted from <http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/005/516.shtml>

Notes

The form was named Romantic Stanza by Bob Newman

Pasted from <http://bensonofjohn.co.uk/poetry/formssearch.php?searchbox=Romantic%20Stanza>

• written in any number of quatrains.
• accentual syllabic, dactylic with L1, L2, and L3 either tetrameter and L4 is dimeter or trimeter.
• rhymed, rhyme abab cdcd etc.
• written with each quatrain employing the first phrase of L1 as a rentrament, repeated as L4. 

Note: Part of this info was cut and pasted from the work of Judi  Van Gorder, aka Tinker on PoetryMagnumOpus, which is linked from this blog.

Example Poem

 Our Genesis   (Romantic Stanza - 11/10/11/7 Version)

Clustering, combining dust aggregating

assembling Hydrogen just as it must.

Assembling atoms, Helium's a-making,

Clustering, combining dust.

Billions of our years gone by with life absent.

Galaxies born, made from stars as they die.

Pressures of their dying create content .

Billions of our years gone by.

Busting outward from that blast, all elements

required for biologic life at last.

All living things sprung from stars' final events,

bursting outward from that blast. 

(c) Lawrencealot - January 27, 2013

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Ah...correct the format below to aa/10/11/7  not 5!

You see there is some discrepancy in the specs, so I have provided a tetrameter template

Rionnaird tri-nard (RUN-ard tree-nard)

Rionnaird tri-nard (RUN-ard tree-nard), traditional Irish quatrain 

form with 6-syllable lines ending in 2-syllable words, 

L2 and L4 riming and L3 in consonance thereto (meaning in this case, 

I gather, vowel-agreement rather than consonant-agreement, 

having at one time meant the same thing as assonance), 

alliteration in every line (ideally between the end-word and the 

preceding stressed word), two cross-rimes in the 2nd couplet,

and the 1st stressed word of L2 alliterating with the last syllable of L1.

 Being Irish, it requires the dunedh, to end where it began 

(first word, phrase, or line repeated in closing). 

Example Poem

Promise

Inviting just by sight,

almost tinsel trapping,

stilletoed toes tripping,

in her sheer hose wrapping.

She's surely sensuous;

Suggests sex is waiting,

waits while will is wilting.

Still fates are Inviting.

(c) Lawrencealot - May 17, 2012

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I see here now that I have failed, if indeed every line

is to end in two-syllable words.  Ah well, close.

Rubai - Rubaiyat

A single quatrain is a Rubai, several together become a Rubaiyat.

Rubāʿī" (رباعي) is a poetry style, the Arabic term for "quatrain". It is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or its derivative form in English and other languages. The plural form of the word, rubāʿiyāt (رباعیات ), often anglicised rubaiyat, is used to describe a collection of such quatrains.[1]

There are a number of possible rhyme schemes to the rubaiyat form, e.g. AABA, AAAA.[2] In Persian verse, a ruba'i visually contains only four lines, its rhyme falling at the middle and end of the lines.

The verse form AABA as used in English verse is known as the Rubaiyat Quatrain due to its use by Edward FitzGerald in his famous 1859 translation, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Algernon Charles Swinburne, one of the first admirers of FitzGerald's translation of Khayyam'smedieval Persian verses, was the first to imitate the stanza form, which subsequently became popular and was used widely, as in the case of Robert Frost's 1922 poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruba'i>

Pasted from <http://allpoetry.com/list/549121-Rubai_>

Example Poem

Free Agent  (Rubaiyat)

Testosterone Tom was a monstrous man

raised in the arctic where caribou ran.

When he ate there weren't left-overs;  Tom'd

never heard of baseball, bagels, or flan.

Like a fish to an aquarium  sent,

or a monkey to a zoo, our Tom spent

his first weeks in Maine looking for control.

Slowly festering smarts would now augment.

Tom learned of the NFL, why quibble.

For this quest he had no need to dribble.

For his size there was no counter-balance,

We'll not divulge teams taking a nibble.

     © Lawrencealot - December 29, 2012

I used the following words, one per line per contest requirements

TESTOSTERONE , ARCTIC,  LEFT-OVERS, BASEBALL,  AQUARIUM, MONKEY, CONTROL           

FESTERING,  QUIBBLE, QUEST,  COUNTER-BALANCE, DIVULGE

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Short Measure

Meter: Iambic trimeter, EXCEPT line three which is iambic tetrameter

Short Measure or Short Meter, is:

• stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains. When written in octaves doubling the short measure quatrains, the verse form is called Double Short Measure.
• metered, most often L1, L2, L4 iambic trimeter, L3 is iambic tetrameter.
• rhymed, Rhyme scheme xaxa xbxb etc x being unrhymed.
• called Poulter's Measure when consolidated into 2 lines.

Pasted from <http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=660> 

Example Poem

Audition      (Short Measure)

  

The teacher greeted her,

the girl with hair in bun.

She wrote his lectures in a book,

as though his words were fun.

At work she did her job,

and filled the bosses cup.

Her brightness and congenial help

seemed never to let up.

In church she sat with legs

so primly crossed, and hands

reclining folded in her lap,

decorum church demands.

With me she is alive

and dresses to entice.

She shows some cleavage and some thigh,

The both of which are nice.

I'm looking seriously.

and want not just a tart.

her looks had hooked and reeled me in,

her mind got her the part.

   © Lawrencealot - January  6, 2013

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Séadna

Séadna is:
1. written in any number of quatrains.
2. syllabic 8-7-8-7.
3. written with L1 and L3, 2 syllable end words; L2 and L4, 1 syllable end words.
4. rhymed. L2 and L4 end rhyme, L3 rhymes with the stressed word preceding the final word of L4. There are two aicill-rhymes in the second couplet.
5. composed with alliteration in each line, the final word of L4 alliterating with the preceding stressed word. The final syllable of L1 alliterates with the first stressed word of L2.
   
   x x x x x x (x a)
   x a x x x x b
   x x x b x x (x c)
   x b x c x x b


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Séadna (shay'-na):
A quatrain stanza of alternating octosyllabic lines with disyllabic endings and heptasyllabic lines with monosyllabic endings. Lines two and four rhyme, line three rhymes with the stressed word preceding the final word of line four. There are two cross-rhymes in the second couplet. There is alliteration in each line, the final word of line four alliterating with the preceding stressed word. The final syllable of line one alliterates with the first stressed word of line two.


B x x x x x (x a)
x x x x x x b
x x x x c x (x c)
x b x c x x B


Caring for the watercolor
I find you looking at me there
Blush to white palor, dim valor,
Thus, where its blue core had found care.


Kathy Anderson




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Example poem


Fight on Poet


Fight on against fear of failure;
cure your weary will and fright.
Pursue dreams; ignore cause killing
themes, write-- winning thrilling fight.


(c) Lawrencealot - July 4, 2012


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This is my 2nd attempt to write specs for this form.  It is without a doubt the most demanding poetry form I have encountered.  Since it is not possible to make a template that is much more than the equivalent of house plans on a napkin, handed to an architect...I have included the check list I referred to repeatedly while writing this one verse poem.
Besides being overly challenged for a long while; I chose a one verse poem so I could demo the Line 4 2nd word rhyme, and the first-last unity.
Enjoy...this form will help fight off dementia.