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Researching Poetry
Research for different forms terms and devices in the world of poetry. By Larry Powers.
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A Cascade PoemEntry #543022
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 format uncomplicated.

Say the first verse has three lines. Line one of verse one becomes the last line of verse two. To follow suit, the second line of verse one becomes the last line of verse three. The third line of verse one now becomes the last line of verse four, the last stanza of the poem.To make the Cascade an even longer poem, use more lines in verse one.
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.hmtl

In my example below, I used quatrain stanzas. Each line of stana one is repeated as the last line of the ensuing stanzas, consecutively, in a cascading effect. I will color code the lines to show the repentends.


          Buffalo Horse

Dangling, the quiver pummeled at his side.
His spotted pony raced toward the herd,
near the pounding flanks of a buffalo cow.
A bow’s length away, he let the arrow fly.

Whump! The beast stumbled forward,
crashing to the earth. The steed charged ahead,
undaunted. The hunter plucked a second arrow.
Dangling, the quiver pummeled at his side.

No time to celebrate a perfect kill –
he thanked the Great Spirit, apologized
to the beast, and set arrow to bowstring, as
his spotted pony raced toward the herd.

Into the swarming dust he rode, amid a thousand
thundering hooves and blurred images.
His pony turned, vaulted, and brought him
near the pounding flanks of a buffalo cow.

A great tatanka bull stormed from the herd.
The buffalo horse veered from the assault.
The bull charged again. The hunter waited.
A bow’s length away, he let the arrow fly.

kansaspoet
Larry Powers
2007
larryp

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