Bina

Bina

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, End Word Requirement, Isosyllabic
Description:	Bob Newman has taken the general idea of the sestina and extended it both upwards and downwards from the six-line stanza it normally uses. The Bina is the two-line stanza version. Like the sestina, it is preferable to use isosyllabic lines.
Attributed to:	Bob Newman
Origin:	England
Schematic:	End word repetition pattern: 12 21 Envoy: (12)
Strengths:	It is much shorter and more practical that the sestina.
Weaknesses:	Having shorter stanzas, the end words come back very quickly, so while it isn't as repetitive and possibly monotonous as the sestina, they will be a very strong presence in the poem. This could make the poem somewhat comic, intentionally or not.
Starting Point:	Because it is only five lines, the flexibility of the end words is not nearly as important as in the sestina; however, they should be chosen well enough that they can be used three times each in five lines and not grate on the nerves.
Rhythm/Stanza Length:	2
Line/Poem Length:	5
Status:	Complete

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Bina

An even smaller variation with just 2 keywords and 5 lines is possible; we may as well call this the bina, then we can have:

Wry Bina

When young Michelle was thirsty, she would long
For “that blackcurrant drink - is any left?”
I wonder, now that she’s grown up and left,
If maybe I indulged her for too long.
When in the tooth she’s long, she’ll have none left.

http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/sestinavar2.htm#bina

A big thank you to Bob Newman

My Example

Trained Wives     (Bina)

The earning of money has been up to me,

the spending of it's been up to my wives.

I've tried adjusting by taking new wives

but they've all done their jobs better than me.

The question for me is who trains those wives?

© Lawrencealot - December 26, 2013

Related forms: Bina, Tritina, Quartina, Quintina, Sestina, Newman Sestina, Sidney's Double Sestina, Decrina, and Canzone.

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Cinquain

(Standard) Cinquain

The cinquain, also known as a quintain or quintet, is a poem or stanza composed of five lines. Examples of cinquains can be found in many European languages, and the origin of the form dates back to medieval French poetry.

The most common cinquains in English follow a rhyme scheme of ababb, abaab or abccb. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century poets such as Sir Philip Sidney, George Herbert, Edmund Waller, and John Donne frequently employed the form, creating numerous variations.

Other examples of the form include "To Helen" by Edgar Allen Poe, which begins:

Helen, thy beauty is to me
     Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
     The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
     To his own native shore.

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Crapsey cinquain

American poet Adelaide Crapsey invented the modern form,[2] inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka.[3][4] In her 1915 collection titled Verse, published one year after her death, Crapsey included 28 cinquains.[5]

Crapsey's cinquains utilized an increasing syllable count in the first four lines, namely two in the first, four in the second, six in the third, and eight in the fourth, before returning to two syllables on the last line. In addition, though little emphasized by critics, each line in the majority of Crapsey cinquains has a fixed number of stressed syllables, as well, following the pattern one, two, three, four, one.[citation needed] The most common metrical foot in her twenty-eight published examples is the iamb, though this is not exclusive. Lines generally do not rhyme. In contrast to the Eastern forms upon which she based them, Crapsey always titled her cinquains, effectively utilizing the title as a sixth line.

The form is illustrated by Crapsey's "November Night":[6]

Text	Syllables	Stressed
Listen…	2	1
With faint dry sound,	4	2
Like steps of passing ghosts,	6	3
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees	8	4
And fall.	2	1

Variations

The Crapsey cinquain has subsequently seen a number of variations by modern poets, including:

Variation	Description
Reverse cinquain	a form with one 5-line stanza in a syllabic pattern of two, eight, six, four, two.
Mirror cinquain	a form with two 5-line stanzas consisting of a cinquain followed by a reverse cinquain.
Butterfly cinquain	a nine-line syllabic form with the pattern two, four, six, eight, two, eight, six, four, two.
Crown cinquain	a sequence of five cinquain stanzas functioning to construct one larger poem.
Garland cinquain	a series of six cinquains in which the last is formed of lines from the preceding five, typically line one from stanza one, line two from stanza two, and so on.

Another form,  Called a Didactic cinquain, sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar, is as follows:

Line 1: Noun

Line 2: Description of Noun

Line 3: Action

Line 4: Feeling or Effect

Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun 

Swinburne Quintet

I have never seen this formally named anywhere,  but was made famous
by Algerrnon  Swinburnes'  "The Palace of Pan", and recently popularized by several  works of Eusebius on Allpoetry.com.

I am simply giving it the name so that it may be referenced conveniently.   If this usurps a form of which I am unaware please notify and chastise me quickly.

It is a metrical stanzaic form identified by
Quintets, no minimum specified but clearly meant for longer poems  given
the  first stanza is repeated as the closing refrain.

Each stanza as the syllable form 11/8/11/11/8
with the (independent) rhyme pattern: abaab


Example Poem

Mathematical Assumptions     (Swinburne quintet)

Discoveries brought the theories turned into law
The knowledge base was growing fast.
The Laws helped explain behavior that we saw.
Then Hubble's was crowned although it had a flaw.
It now fails and thus cannot last.

Yes, Edwin had doubts, but they arrived too late.
The Big Bang advocates made hay.
The red-shift allowed math to now calculate
amazing things, like perhaps Big Bang's birth date.
Why let such a plum get away?

All parts of Big Bang were ideation borne.
They have to be.  We were not there.
An advanced math model was most fully born,
already tweaked so much some folks felt forlorn.
Dark things needed came from nowhere.

Math models in particle physics have shone
predicting fermions, et. al.
But out of this true success, hubris has grown
until some have come to trust in math alone.
G. I. G. O.*  now seems the call.

Assuming a Big Bang to initiate
their model is now in conflict
with observations scientists can debate-
a notion leaders cannot appreciate.
Our generation has been tricked.

Discoveries brought theories turned into law
The knowledge base was growing fast.
The Laws helped explain behavior that we saw.
Then Hubble's was crowned although it had a flaw.
It now fails and thus cannot last.


  © Lawrencealot - March 9, 2013

*Garbage In Garbage Out



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Emmett

The Emmett style is a fiendish five line form related to the acrostic styles.

Form Type:	Metrical
Origins:	English
Creator:	Dorothy Hester
Number of Lines:	5
Rhyme Scheme:	a,b,b,a,b
Meter:	N/A

Rules

The Emmett has 2 rules:

1.The first line of the Emmett is five WORDS long. Each word of the first line becomes the first word of the following lines. So the second word in line one becomes the first word of line two, the third word becomes the first word of line three, etc.

2. To make things a little more complex the Emmett has a rhyme scheme of a,b,b,a,b.

There are no other restrictions on meter or line length.

Example

I have wondered about this

Have pondered too

Wondered if you were true

About the first kiss

This nerve wracking thing to do

Copyright Dorothy Hester 2012

Notes

The Emmett was created by Dorothy Hester in May 2012 and was named after her maternal family name. The first example was posted on The Poetry Forum on the 2nd of May 2012

Pasted from <http://bensonofjohn.co.uk/poetry/formssearch.php?searchbox=Emmett> 

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Jumping Rhyme

This form was invented by Amanda J. Norton

Monorhyme quintet with line length growing from 6 to ten syllables
Interlaced rhyme required for every line, starts with word two of line 1
then "jumps" up a word each line until the last,
where it jumps back one word.
Obviously the poet must not use large multisyllabic words that make this impossible

Line length is based on syllables, rhyme pattern is based on words - take care

Example Poem

Lets Dance   (Jumping Rhyme)

I propose that we dance
if your toes dare take a chance.
God only knows I cannot prance
and whirl like the pros, but there's a chance
the closeness could dispose you to romance.

© Lawrencealot - December 9, 2012

Both Interlaced and end-rhyme are monorhyme
I think the following visual template will clarify:
Note: you cannot chart the interlaced rhyme in advance, as it is dependent upon the word size

Laturne

The Lanturne is a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese
lantern with a syllabic pattern of
 one, two, three, four, one.

Must be Centered

Example Poem

Some Laturnes

One

Two, Three

Look at me.

What do you see?

Me.

Lit

Lantern

Summons some

Nighttime flying

Moths.

Long

leggy

lasses love

lecherous lads'

looks.

Wife

kisses

husband who

is most happy

man.

© Lawrencealot - April, 2012

Limerick

A limerick (is):

1. is five lines long,
2. is based on the rhythm "da-da-DAH" (anapest meter)
3. has two different rhymes.
4. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have three of those da-da-DAH "feet," and rhyme with each other.
5. Lines 3 and 4 have two, and rhyme with each other.

So the basic form is:

da da DAH / da da DAH / da da BING 

da da DAH / da da DAH / da da DING 

da da DAH / da da BAM 

da da DAH / da da WHAM 

da da DAH / da da DAH / da da PING 

Limericks can:

1. drop the first "da" in a line, changing that foot to da-DAH (iamb).
2. add an extra "da" or two at the end of a line IF it's used for an extended rhyme, such as people and steeple or cannibal and Hannibal.
3. use special fonts or characters to make a point,

A Limerick is a rhymed humorous or nonsense poem of five lines which originated in Limerick, Ireland.   

The Limerick has a set rhyme scheme of : a-a-b-b-a with a syllable structure of: 9-9-6-6-9. 

Limericks can also be written in AMPHIBRACH meter/

- two lines of amphibrachic trimeter, two lines of amphibrachic dimeter,

and a final line of amphibrachic trimeter.

Below my visual template shows two perfectly acceptable Limerick Forms.

Example Poem

Dancing with the Stars   (limericks)

There once was a hippo that  danced 

for a troupe that was poorly financed 

but when word got around 

what a treasure'd been found 

the promoters good fortunes advanced. 

So she hired a bear that could skate 

and folks made long queues at the gate

for in love were the stars 

both as big as small cars 

and the rumor was spread that they'd mate. 

Well the owner would not much like that, 

so she brought in a bull from North Platte 

that could juggle and dance 

just to counter the chance 

the hippo might later get fat.

© Lawrencealot - November 17, 2012

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Anapest version

Amphibrach Version

Pensee

A syllabic form.
No meter specified.
No rhyme.


syllabic count 2-4-7-8-6;
line 1 is the subject;
line 2 gives description;
line 3, action;
line 4, the setting;
line 5, final thought.

Best Centered

Example poem

My Socks - Lost and Found

My socks

get a divorce

in my laundry; wallflowers

created in drier dances-

washday musical chairs.

© Lawrencealot - November 20, 2012

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Whyquain

A form invented on AllPoetry.com by Gloria Kim, aka Porphery. 

It is a single verse of five iambic tetrameter lines in monorhyme

which answers some asked or un-asked question.

Example Poem:

Why Do Cats Purr

While dogs can bark and growl and grrrr

and guard, and stealthy thieves deter,

which earned their place with men for sure,

The cats had only pretty fur,

so asked if God would add a purr.

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