Zanze

• The Zanze is a verse form with variable syllabic pattern introduced by Walden Greenwell.
  
  The Zanze is:
• a poem in 16 lines made up of 4 quatrains.
• syllabic, 8-8-8-8 6-6-6-6 4-4-4-4 2-4-6-8 syllables per line.
• rhymed, Abab cdcd efef gagA.
• L1 is repeated as L16, L5 is the repetition of first 6 syllables of L1, L9 is the repetition of first 4 syllables of L1 and L13 is the repetition of the first 2 syllables of L1.

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Although the rhyme pattern suggest there is one refrain, ther are actually four!

My Example poem

Now I Lay Me Down, Let's Sleep      (Zanze)

If you wait 'til the morning dear

I'll be more sober and awake

It's better when my head is clear,

I'll know you then for heaven's sake.

If you wait 'til the morn

I'll treat you like a queen

and not as a lowborn

with limbs to come between.

If you wait 'til

the time is right

I know I will

give you delight.

If you

forgive my beer

I promise I'll come through.

If you wait 'til the morning dear.

© Lawrencealot - April 7, 2014

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Veltanelle

• The Veltanelle is a stanzaic form created by Velta Myrtle Allen Sanford.
  
• The Veltanelle is:
• stanzaic, written in no more than 3 sixains.
• syllabic, 10-6-10-6-10-10 syllalbes per line.
• rhymed ababcc dededeff ghghghii.

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My example poem

Anything's Inside     (Veltanelle)

This floor and I were hiding in a tree.

along with many things.

It took the work of man to set us free

as we hid in the rings.

It took some skill to find us, that is true.

Imagine what might be inside of you.

© Lawrencealot - April 7, 2014

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Termelay

• The Termelay is similar to the Roundelay. This invented verse form was created by Viola Berg.
  
  The Termelay is:
• a hexastich, a poem in 6 lines.
• syllabic, 4-4-4-8-8-4 syllables per line.
• unrhymed.
• composed with a refrain, L3 is repeated as L6.

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My example poem

What Do Nattering Nannies Know?    (Termelay)

When power groups

say "No you can't",

Do something else.

Some want constraints acts that seem fine;

Just stick a finger in their eye.

Do something else.

© Lawrencealot - April 7, 2014

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Sweetbriar

• The Sweetbriar is a stanzaic invented form similar to the Minuette. It uses only 1 rhyme and was created by Viola Berg.
  
  The Sweetbriar is:
• stanzaic, written in 2 sixains.
• syllabic, 4-4-6-4-4-6 syllables per line.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme xxaxxa xxaxxa.

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My example poem

He Watches Me Bathe    (Sweetbriar)

He likes to watch

me shower it excites

him, that I know.

I wait until I'm sure

he's there, then I

put on my show.

I see him smile

as I'm caressed by the

cool water's flow.

He spends that time with me

each day, until

I have to go.

© Lawrencealot - April 5, 2014

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Seox

• The Seox (seox in Anglo Saxon means six) is a verse form written in 6 lines in keeping with its name. It was created by Ann Byrnes Smith.
  
  The Seox is:
• a poem in six lines, a hexastich.
• syllabic, 3-7-6-5-4-3 syllables per lines.
• unrhymed.

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My Example Poem

A Way Out     (Seox)

When it is

practically impossible

to force your words to march

to any set rhyme

or metric flow

use this form.

© Lawrencealot - April 5, 2014

Septanelle

• The Septanelle is a verse form in 7 lines. It was created by Lyra LuVaile.
  
  The Septanelle is:
• a heptastich, a poem in seven lines.
• syllabic, 4-6-10-4-6-10-4 syllables per line.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme ababcca.

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My Example Poem

Not Enough     (Septanlle)

I had no dream

at twenty-one. My life

had been scripted by others, it would seem.

I took a wife

served country, then could see

that schooling offered opportunity -

my only theme.

© Lawrencealot - April 5, 2014

Scallop

• The Scallop is an invented stanzaic form written in sixains. It was created by Marie L Blanche Adams.
  
  The Scallop is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of sixains.
• syllabic, 2-4-6-6-4-2 syllables per line.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme abccba deffed ghiihg etc.

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My example poem

What Need for Rhyme    (Scallop)

What need

have you for rhyme?

Is there a purpose served,

are rhyming words deserved

all of the time?

Indeed!

If I

should someday choose

to forego rhyming verse

my spirit would be worse

and I would lose,

so why?

© Lawrencealot -  April 4, 2014

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