My Poetic Latticework

        

        

Form: The 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.

Number of Lines: min 6 lines, a hexastich.

Rules:
syllabic, 3-7-6-5-4-3 syllables per line.

Rhyme Scheme:
unrhymed

Choices for the poets to make this week: You must include one of these word pairs in your poem:
trick / treat
black / orange
fall / leaves
coffee / cake
me / you

Form: American 767

Created by Dennis L. Dean

Number of Lines: 3

Rules:
A poem of 3 lines
Syllabic: 7/6/7
Meter or Rhyme not required
Must mention some type of bug.

Choices for the Poet this week:
Which bug/insect will you write about?

Form: Argonelles

Number of lines: 5

Rules:
Composed of an unlimited amount of 5-line stanzas (quintains).
The syllable count is 2-6-8-8-6, with line 2 & 5 having the same syllable count and limes 3 & 4 composed of the same syllable count.

The rhyme scheme of an Argonelles is: a-b-c-c-b.

Example:

Darkness,
a fear of the unknown,
and the thought of waiting in line,
these things send shivers up my spine
when I am all alone.

Choices for the poet this week:
Your poem may be on any subject and as many quintains as you like. Have fun!

The luc bat is a Vietnamese poetic form that means “six-eight.”

Number of Lines: min 8 lines


Rules:
The poem consists of alternating lines of six and eight syllables.
This poem is interesting in its rhyme scheme that renews at the end of every eight-syllable line and rhymes on the sixth syllable of both lines.

The odd lines (1,3,5,etc) are six sound units and the even lines (2,4,6 etc) are eight sound units long, hence the title. The rhyming scheme is simple also. The last word (sixth sound unit) of the odd lines rhymes with the sixth sound unit of the even line and the eighth sound unit rhymes with the sixth unit of the next odd line. The final even line, linking back to the first line.

Meter:
Alternating lines of six and eight syllables

Rhyme Scheme:
Here’s a diagram of how the first few lines of luc bat poems should rhyme:

xxxxxA
xxxxxAxB
xxxxxB
xxxxxBxC
xxxxxC
xxxxxCxD
xxxxxD
xxxxxDxE

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

Form: The Bop
The Bop is a poetic form that was developed by poet Afaa Michael Weaver.

Number of Lines: 20

Rules:
3 stanzas
Each stanza is followed by a refrain
First stanza is 6 lines long and presents a problem
Second stanza is 8 lines long and explores or expands the problem
Third stanza is 6 lines long and either presents a solution or documents the failed attempt to resolve the problem

Choices for the Poet this week:
Your poem may be on any topic or subject

1. Composed in Dizain form for "Invalid Item"  and for "Stormy's poetry newsletter & contest"  with required words school bells laughter noisy hallway books paper butterflies.

2. Form: Dizain

Number of lines: 10 (one 10-lined stanza)

Rules:
The Dizain gets us back in the French form domain, which as regular readers know is a favorite of mine. This particular form was a favorite of 15th and 16th-century French poets, but it has also been employed in English by the likes of Philip Sidney and John Keats.

Here are the basic rules of the Dizain:

One 10-line stanza
10 syllables per line
Employs the following rhyme scheme: ababbccdcd

Choices for the poet this week:
Your poem may be on any subject Have fun!

Number of Lines: minimum of 8 (two quatrains)

Rules:
The 7/5 Trochee, created by Andrea Dietrich, of 2 or more quatrain stanzas with the following set rules:

Meter: 7/5/7/5
Rhyme Scheme: a/b/c/b or a/b/a/b

The meter is trochee, which means alternating stressed and unstressed beats in each line, with each line beginning and ending in a stressed syllable. This is a simple lyrical type little poem, so rhymes will be basic, nothing fancy. The poem itself should give a description of something of interest to the poet. There is not a set number of these quatrain type stanzas, but a typical 7/5 Trochee would consist of two quatrains, with the second stanza serving to tie up the idea presented in the first stanza.

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

Number of Lines: 6

Rules:
A six-line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 syllables.

The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words.
The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third, and fourth lines as the 5th through 8th syllables.

Example:

Death

Blackest
Darkest
Coldest
Oldest
Burning in the Blackest, Darkest night
There in lives the Coldest, Oldest fright

Copyright © 2001 Mike McCann

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

Number of lines: 5 unrhymed lines

Rules:
Tanka is a classic form of Japanese poetry related to the haiku with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables.
(5, 7, 5, 7, 7)

Choices for the poet this week:
Your poem may be on any subject Have fun!