Researching Poetry (Book) http://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/1192227-Researching-Poetry The Traditional and the Modern Sijo _____________________________________________ The Traditional Sijo The Sijo (see-zhoo) poetry form originated in Korea and over the years has become the most beloved of poetry forms in Korea. In its truest form, the Sijo is a song-like poem. Like the popular haiku, the Sijo has ties to nature. ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:41:03 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/627373 Some thoughts about poetry and a few poems: Poetry inspired me early on. A quirky only child, I spent a fair amount of time reading alone in my pale blue bedroom or in a wooden playhouse in my backyard. I wasn't entirely antisocial, but found many of my best friends in a parallel universe of words occupying a small bookshelf in my closet...[Read Full Post] Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:25:05 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/622736 In 1838, near Myall Creek station in northern New South Wales, a group of white settlers, in acts of brutality, killed twenty-eight Aboriginal men, women, and children. For fifty-one years, Pastoralists had pushed into Aboriginal land and dispossessed Indigenous people from their homelands, but the Aboriginal people did not give up easily, and many viole...[Read Full Post] Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:06:37 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/619159 The Cornish Sonnet My dear friend and fellow Writing.com poet [Link To User cnoto] introduced me to the Cornish Sonnet. I will feature here Cornish sonnet in the addition to Researching Poetry. I have not yet written my first Cornish Sonnet and look forward to trying this challenging sonnet form. I found very little about thi...[Read Full Post] Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:01:24 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/605277 The Saraband Sonnet is a delightful little sonnet form. In my search, I found only one place that mentioned the Saraband, [Link: 'http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/2006Challenge/treten.html'] The Saraband is based on a musical dance form and was originally an Asian dance. The poetry form was introduced in Spain in the 1700's and later ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:25:56 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/591892 I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. ~~Carol Ann Duffy, contemporary British poet, playwright, and freelance writer The oldest and sonnet form is the Petrarchan, also referred to as the Italian Sonnet. The Petrarchan has been called the most common of sonn...[Read Full Post] Sat, 17 May 2008 13:26:28 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/585576 The Least-Known Sonnet - The Spenserian Sonnet When discussing poetry forms written in accentual meter, especially iambic meter, perhaps the most notorious is the sonnet. The least known and practiced sonnet form is the Spenserian Sonnet. Edmund Spenser, a sixteenth century English poet, invented the sonnet form which is named for hi...[Read Full Post] Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:44:59 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/575277 The Revanche poetry form combines blank verse and rhyming verse, using iambic meter. For the purposes of review, iambic meter is measured in feet, where: 1 iambic foot (iamb) = 1 unstressed syllable + 1 stressed syllable. Using a line from my Grossblank poem "An Evening's Excursion," I will show t...[Read Full Post] Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:17:18 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/570464 As part of a committment for this year, I have decided to play around with developing a form of poetry. In this form, you will see traces of other forms; I believe the distinction is that I have combined the requirement of iambic pentameter, repetends, and inverted repetends, while adding the requirement of only four rymes. (Note: I have changed the m...[Read Full Post] Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:51:30 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/566154 From the Poetry Newsletter In her book A Poetry Handbook, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver states: You would learn very little in this world if you were not allowed to imitate. And to repeat your imitations until some solid grounding in the skill was achieved and the slight but wonderful difference—that made you you and no...[Read Full Post] Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:21:16 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/565303 Minute Poetry - an iambic poetry form As presented in the January 2, 2008 Poetry Newsletter. The holidays are behind us and we've entered a new year - 2008. Many people have made resolutions, but I find the older I get, the fewer resolutions I make, but I still enjoy trying new things. I think this is how we stay young of heart. With thi...[Read Full Post] Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:30:09 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/558149 INVERSION In A Poetry Handbook, noted and honored American poet Mary Oliver states that it is not possible, or wise, to set absolutely firm rules for poetry. In the same paragraph, she adds, in almost any poem certain practices are appropriate, certain practices are not inappropriate. In a section of her book entitled "Inap...[Read Full Post] Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:21:40 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/556958 Syllabic Meter In response to my reviews of poetry, more than a few say they don't understand meter. While iambic and trochaic meter (accentual-syllabic meter) can be complicated with foot requirements and stressed syllables, there is a meter which is really quite simple. This is called syllabic meter. The only requiremen...[Read Full Post] Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:42:31 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/556715 Some of my favorite forms of poetry are the old Welsh forms. These forms use much rhyme and syllable-count lines, along with the following poetry devices. Alliteration Also called “head rhyme” or “initial rhyme,” the repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of stressed syllables in neighboring words...[Read Full Post] Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:10:14 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/546799 A Cascade Poem This poem is named for its cascading effect. It uses repetends (repeating lines) from preceding verses. The form is a creation of Udit Bhatia. Shadow Poetry describes the form as being about receptiveness, but in a smooth cascading way like a waterfall. The Cascade form has no rhyme scheme, which makes its fo...[Read Full Post] Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:11:37 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/543022 In The Discovery of Poetry, A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems, author and poet Frances Mayes states: Words are the basic building blocks of poetry. The poem is made word by word. No other choices the poet make – subject, structure, speaker – are more important than the quality of individual ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:33:02 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/535307 POETIC LIMERICKS Joel D. Ash describes ‘poetic limericks’ as genuine poetry written in the limerick style. My poems, he states, like limericks, use a distinctive rhyming scheme of a-a-b-b-a in which the first, second, and fifth lines of each stanza rhyme as do the third and fourth lines. My poetic limericks also uti...[Read Full Post] Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:15:41 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/522778 Swap Quatrain The Swap Quatrain was created by Lorraine M. Kanter. In the Swap Quatrain form, each stanza must be a quatrain (four lines) with a couplet rhyming pattern (AABB, CCDD, etc.). The rhyming words must be different, not repeated, in subsequent stanzas. In addition, the first line of each stanza is repeated in reverse in the fourth line of each stanza. For an example, take the first ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:28:17 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/517155 The CinqTroisDecaLa Rhyme and Syllabic Verse The CinqTroisDecaLa Rhyme The CinqTroisDecaLa Rhyme, is a form created by Laura Lamarca, consisting of one 10-lined stanza. The rhyme scheme for this form is AABBCCCABC and a syllable count of each line is 15. [Link: 'http://www.shadowpoetry.com/re...[Read Full Post] Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:28:18 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/514109 THE SESTINA Of French origin, the sestina was invented by the troubadour poet Arnaud Daniel and is considered one of the more difficult forms to write. The Sestina is a non-metered, non-rhyming poetry form, using six words which repeat as line-ending words in set sequential order in each six-line stanza. In the closing envoi,...[Read Full Post] Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:59:52 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/484171 THE PLEIADIC The Pleiadic is not to be confused with another poetry form, the Pleiades, which is listed in [Link To Item #945530] . The Pleiadic is a verse form devised by Vera Rich, so-called because of its seven stanzas. Vera Rich, an accomplished British poet and author, named this form after a group of stars in th...[Read Full Post] Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:36:29 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/481500 THE AUBADE [Link: 'http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/autonomous.html'] In the introduction to Autonomous Poetry, The Poets Garret states that there are times when the poet wants to create a particular mood or describe a particular time. One of the genres of poems presented in Autonomo...[Read Full Post] Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:13:21 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/479446 BURN’S STANZA Although the Burn’s Stanza is named for poet Robert Burns of Scotland, it was originally created by Habbie Simpson (1550-1620) and was formerly called the “standard Habbie.” The Burn’s Stanza is often referred to as the Scottish stanza or six-line stave. The Burn&#821...[Read Full Post] Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:58:52 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/477647 ZaniLa Rhyme The ZaniLa Rhyme is a poetry form created by Laura Lamarca. A ZaniLa Rhyme has an minimum of three quatrain (4-lined) stanzas with a specific rhyme scheme and syllable count. There is no maximum length requirement for the form. In each stanza, the rhyme scheme is abcb and the syllable count is 9/7/9/9...[Read Full Post] Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:40:41 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/476809 ALLITERISEN The Alliterisen is a unique poetry form using the device of alliteration and a specific line and syllable count. The following information regarding the Alliterisen form created by Udit Bhatia comes directly from: [Link: 'http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html'] Also see: [Link: &#39...[Read Full Post] Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:32:47 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/476286