My Poetic Latticework

1. Sacroiliac: https://www.medicinenet.com/sacroiliac_joint_pain/article.htm

2. The Florette form of poetry:
Form: Florette
This form was invented by Jan Turner.

Number of Lines:
8 lines in two quatrains (two 4-line stanzas)

More lines may be added in multiples of 8

Rules/Meter:
Syllable counts per line: 8, 8, 8, 12
*see rhyming requirements below

Rhyme Scheme:
The first, second and fourth lines are all end-rhymed,
and the eighth syllable of line four rhymes with the end of line three,
as described and demonstrated in the link provided above.

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.

Form: Cinquino
The Cinquino was created by a 20th-century American educator James Neille Northe.

Number of Lines: 5

Rules: syllabic, 2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line.

Rhyme Scheme: unrhymed

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.

EXAMPLE:

I Am

alone
time flies on flitting fairy wings
up down and all around
I am here now
alive

by Tinker

Form: Soledad

Number of Lines: minimum 3, stanzas may be added in multiples of three lines and must follow the rhyming scheme

Rules:
Three 8-syllable lines (per stanza)
Follow rhyming scheme below

Meter:
Often the 3rd syllable of a line is stressed.

Rhyme Scheme:
The first and third lines must rhyme
axa, bxb, etc

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.

Example:
Spring Ahead
by Tinker

Eyes droop from lack of sleep last night,
late night write, hour hand clicked to twelve,
skip ropes forward, I wake at light.

Form: Lai
The Lai is a very old French form and tradition states that the short line must not be indented, it must be left dressed to the poem. This is known as Arbre Fourchu (Forked Tree) there is a pattern meant to be set up as a tree.

Number of Lines: 9

Rules:
This poem is comprising of a five syllabled couplet followed by a two-syllable line.

Rhyme Scheme: a. a. b. a. a. b. a. a. b.

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.
Additionally, your poem may be any length, however, each stanza must have nine lines.

EXAMPLE:

For Thee

Greater love have I
Than stars in the sky
For thee
"til this world doth die
hope you wish to lie
With me
On wings we will fly
upwards bye and bye
Earth free.

A poetic form created by Lencio Dominic Rodrigues, the Lento is named after it's creator, taken from his first name Lencio and rhymed to Cento, an existing form of poetry.

A Lento consists of two quatrains with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb, defe as the second and forth lines of each stanza must rhyme. To take it a step further, but not required, try rhyming the first and third lines as well as the second and forth lines of each stanza in this rhyming pattern: abab, cdcd. The fun part of this poem is thrown in here as all the FIRST words of each verse should rhyme. There is no fixed syllable structure to the Lento, but keeping a good, flowing rhythm is recommended.

For an added challenge, one may write a four-verse Lento and call it a Double Lento, or a six-versed Lento to become a Triple Lento.

Below is an example of a Lento:

Composed in winter of Two Thousand Five, (a)
Proposed by my dreams, this entire theme, (b)
Exposed now for all to write and have fun, (c)
Supposed to be easy though it doesn't seem. (b)

Two verses of four lines each you will write, (d)
Do rhyme the beginning word in every line, (e)
Pursue to keep last rhymes in line 2 and 4, (f)
Chew your brain a little, you'll do just fine! (e)

~ Copied from the Shadow Poetry   website.

Form: Marianne

Number of Lines: 5

Rules:
1. Center the lines on the page
2. Five-line stanzas
3. Syllable Count: 4-6-8-4-2

Rhyme Scheme:
Lines 1, 3, and 5 should rhyme.

Choices for the poets to make this week:
Your poem can be about any topic
You may have any number of stanzas you like

Form: Oddquain

Number of Lines:
5 lines minimum

Rules:
Oddquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of seventeen syllables distributed 1, 3, 5, 7, 1 in five lines,

Rhyme Scheme:
none

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic and here are some variations to consider:

oddquain sequences - poems made up of oddquain stanzas

crown oddquains - a five stanza oddquain sequence

reverse oddquains - an oddquain with a reverse syllable pattern of 1-7-5-3-1

mirror oddquains - a two stanza oddquain sequence of the pattern 1-3-5-7-1 1-7-5-3-1

oddquain butterflies - a “merged mirror oddquain” where the two stanzas of a mirror oddquain are merged together, one of the middle 1 syllable lines is dropped, resulting in one nine-line stanza of the form 1-3-5-7-1-7-5-3-1. Please note that an oddquain butterfly is not an “oddquain” because it doesn’t have five lines, but it is “butterfly” made up of two oddquains that were merged together into one poem.

Example:
Autumn

Fall
leaves floating
downward, spiral dance
of joy begun, welcoming
fall.

Copyright © 2006 Glenda L. Hand

Form: The Tableau

Number of Lines:
Minimum 6

Rules:
1 or more stanzas, each containing 6 lines.
Since the dictionary states the word tableau means picture or representation, the poem should reflect this.
A picture should come to mind as the poem is read.

Meter:
Each line should have five beats.

Rhyme Scheme:
No rhyming scheme.

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.

Examples:
Graveside Tableau

Sunlight cannot warm
The corpse of the bairn
Who drowned in the loch;
Stoic the father,
Silent the mother,
While a spinster weeps

Copyright © 2008 Emily Romano


Winter Tableau

Not a sign of wind –
A single snowflake
Descends into view;
I search the bleak sky
For just a few more
And breathe in winter.

Copyright © 2008 Margaret R. Smith

Form: Octet
Number of Lines: 8

Rules:
Syllabic, 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 syllables per line.

Rhyme Scheme: Unrhymed

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.
It can be written as a mirror (16 lines) or can be reversed.