Poetry Forms (Book) http://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/945530-Poetry-Forms The Cleave Poem form is an experimental form created by Dr Phuoc-Tan Diep who states on his website for Cleave Poetry: In 2006 I came up with an idea for an experimental poetic form called the Cleave Poem. One of my aims was to examine how something can be more than the sum of its parts and can be 3 in 1: synergy, fusion, co-operation, di...[Read Full Post] Fri, 22 May 2009 23:14:00 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/635814 Terza Rima Sonnet A Terza Rima Sonnet consists of four tercets (three-lined stanzas) with an interlocking rhyme scheme and a closing couplet (two-lined stanza) which links back to the first stanza (14 total lines). The English form of the Terza Rima Sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, but according to the Poet's Garret, &#...[Read Full Post] Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:33:17 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/630757 The Decuain (deck-won) is yet another poetry form I found at www.shadowpoetry.com The Deuain, a form created by Shelley A. Cephas, consists of ~~one stanza of 10 lines ~~each line contains ten syllables written in iambic pentameter ~~there are only three rhymes in the stanza, with the following options for rhyme scheme: ababbcbcaa,...[Read Full Post] Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:17:02 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/625446 The Lannet is another poetry form I found on www.shadowpoetry.com. The Lannet was created by Laura Lamarca and is a form of a sonnet. The Lannet form consists of: ~~14 lines ~~10 syllables per line - simple syllabic meter is sufficient - stressed-meter (iambic, etc is not required) ~~ No end-line rhyming is required, however ~~ internal r...[Read Full Post] Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:36:12 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/625309 The Trilonnet is a form I found on www.shadowpoetry.com. The Trilonnet is a 14-line poetry form created by Shelley A. Cephas. The Trilonnet consists of five stanzas - the first four stanzas are three-lined stanzas (triplets) and the concluding stanza is a couplet (two lines). The form requires either iambic tetrameter or iambic pentameter. ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:56:27 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/623473 I found the Tri-fall form at Shadow Poetry [Link: 'http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html'] The Tri-fall form, a creation of Jan Turner, has three 6-line stanzas. Each stanza follows a specific line-syllable count of 6/3/8/6/3/8 and a rhyme scheme of abcabc. By directions of the form's creator, very little puncutation ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:37:08 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/622737 The Hexaduad _________________________________________________ Knowing how much Bianca enjoys posting forms in this book of forms, I took the liberty of entering the Hexaduad. The Huxaduad form was introduced to me by friend and fellow Writing.com poet [Link To User c.r.stone] . The example given below - Expressions - is her poem. ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:54:43 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/605358 The Jánakú ______________________________________________________________________ A form that I found by accident... the Jánakú. (pronounciation: hay (na) ku ) The forum owner of "The World in Chapter and Verse" writes: "The form was invented by Eileen Tabios. It is simple: A tercet comprised of one, two- and three-word lines. ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:34:05 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/581620 The Onzain is a French form in origin, and in future posts I am going to add more examples of this form. The Dutch variation of the Onzain - Onzijn was popularized in The Netherlands by Drs. P. The good Doctor is celebrating his 88th birthday today. Onze stands for eleven. The Onzain counts eleven lines, and each line contains eleven syllables. The rh...[Read Full Post] Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:23:52 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/564871 It was given as writing prompt in a Dutch writing group: "Write a 160". The 160 is a 21st century poetry form. Adapted from the number of characters that can be placed in an SMS; the 160 is challenging the poet to write compact, using exactly 160 characters, including spaces, commas etc. It is limiting, but also challenging... My try: ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:46:40 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/564642 Strange how things can go. I was working on a wrist warmer (yes...knitting), in which I had hidden a reversed cinquain. The inventor of the cinquain made me think and I decided to look up her biography using Google. There I saw that she is also responsible for the invention of the Doublet. Related to the epigram, the Doublet has twenty syllables, d...[Read Full Post] Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:46:04 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/551480 Here we go, in 2007 I am starting the fifth year of my Poetry studies. This time I am adding the Acrostic Monorhyme. The fun with a monorhyme is that every line ends in the same rhyme - short: a/a/a/a/a etc. Usually monorhymes have a comic note. Acrostic monorhymes are having a twist - the first letters of every sentence form a word, and the rhyme sch...[Read Full Post] Tue, 15 May 2007 06:48:32 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/479066 One of the easiest Welsh poetry forms is the Cyhydedd Fer. The description I found told - and I quote:" A rhymed couplet of 8-syllable lines." My feelings with this form is that this couplet can be witty - there is no info if the poem is a stand alone stanza only, or that more stanzas can be added. Example: This silence in my home I’...[Read Full Post] Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:46:33 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/460264 The Octet is a form, recently discovered by Dr. Laura Andersson. The Octet works in the same way as the Countdown and the Nonet, only with the difference that it counts backwards from 8 syllables to 1 syllable. More stanza's in this form are allowed, it is also possible to reverse the Octet, starting with 1 syllable, going up to 8 - a mirrored...[Read Full Post] Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:46:58 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/459075 The Paradelle After a search I found on Wikipedia, that this form was invented in the ‘90s of the last century. The inventor of the form, Billy Collins (USA) claimed that the form existed since the early 12th century. In fact he made the form up as a parody of the Villanelle. Ah well… Billy knows I guess. In every way, the Paradelle was ma...[Read Full Post] Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:47:45 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/431286 Sol Magazine - that is the place where I found this form. Created by Betty Ann Whitney, who gave her name to this form. It is a syllabic poem - one stanza of seven lines, using 28 syllables in total. It is divided in this way: line 1: 3 syllables line 2: 4 syllables line 3: 3 syllables line 4: 4 syllables line 5: 3 syllables line 6: 4 syllables ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:37:41 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/431020 The Chronos is a new form. The ~w stands for the fact that this form is written in words, instead of syllables. It is developed by my own daughter Alexa Boonstra, and myself. We were discussing some formula's a few weeks ago, while she was learning hard for her math test. She asked me what Pi2 was. (here I go with my wisdom) Question marks in my e...[Read Full Post] Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:30:37 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/413345 In Poetry a palindrome is used to say something different, using the same words backwards. One word is used as a mirror....the words before that word will be repeated in reversed order. An example: words, like people come or go empty spaces remain hollow… remain, spaces empty go… or come... people like wor...[Read Full Post] Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:42:49 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/409924 Until recently I never heard of this form. I found it in the book of [Link To User crumbledcookie] It intrigued me and a search learned me that the developer is Michael Walker. -The Monotetra's stanza has a mono rhyme scheme in each stanza. -It has four lines per stanza, eight syllables per line. -In the last line, four syllables are repeated...[Read Full Post] Sat, 24 May 2008 16:14:13 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/405548 According to Shadowpoetry.com, the Monchielle is developed by Jim T. Henriksen. It is a recent developed form, as on a different website the example he wrote was dated November 7th 2005. A new form to play with - still not an easy one. The guidelines: The poem contains out of 4 stanzas Each stanza has five lines. Every line has six syllables Every first line is...[Read Full Post] Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:43:21 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/401704 There is not much information available about the person who developed this form, or when. It has one link though - time... as it is called the minute. Sixty seconds go in a minute. Sixty syllables go into The Minute. These sixty syllables are divided over three stanzas. Each stanza has twenty syllables. So each stanza has the following syllable count: 8/4/4/4 ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:07:06 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/399283 The first time that I met this form I was reading [Link to Book Entry #393486] It reminded me in a way to a combination of the pantoum, as well as the villanelle family. Not easy, but do-able. The information on the form is pretty brief: I quote: "The Mirrored Refrain is rhyming verse form constructed by Stephanie Repnyek. The poem is formed by three or more quatrains where two lines within the q...[Read Full Post] Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:34:41 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/398231 I was researching another form when I ran into this one. The Trois-par-Huit was developed by Lorraine M. Kanter. It is in a way an adaption of the French Huitain, but do not underestimate the form - it is more difficult than it looks at first sight. The guidelines for this form: The poem contains out of three stanzas. Two combinations are possible:3/3/2 lines and 3/2/3 lines according to the guidelines found. ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:34:13 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/398210 I saw this form for the first time here on Writing.com and was surprised that I did not have it in my book yet. Pleiades is developed by one of the editors of Sol Magazine. The rules are really simple, though the poem is more a challenge than I imagined in the first place. Here are the guidelines: Pleiades is formed out of one single word and one seven-lined stanza. *^*Gift4*^...[Read Full Post] Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:56:07 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/390736 The Chronos is a new form. The ~s stands for the fact that this form is written in syllables. It is developed by my own daughter Alexa Boonstra, and myself. We were discussing some formula's a few weeks ago, while she was learning hard for her math test. She asked me what Pi2 was. (here I go with my wisdom) Question marks in my eyes were popping u...[Read Full Post] Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:26:39 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/390721