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Poetic Forms (PF)
Learn about old & new poetic forms.
If you are familiar with one or have a favorite style, share it with others. Or just try writing a few and posting them here.

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Rhupunt ~ F.O.M. April/May 09 April/May Form of the Month, 2009 Daniel is on hiatus for awhile and asked if I would throw something out here. Here's hoping someone catches it. I found this to be easy and fun to do. *Rhupunt*: This is Welsh... Started Apr 28^th, 2009 at 5:47pm by writer	9	275	Jan 6^th, 2020 at 7:32pm By: Normpo
Rhopalic Verse This was taken from The Poets Garret.<----Here's a link. Rhopalic Verse Rhopalic Verse is a very deceptive form that at first appears simple but in fact it requires a lot of hard work to accomplish a satisfactory piece. The rules are simple: With each li... Started Apr 4^th, 2009 at 5:23am by writer	6	64	Nov 8^th, 2019 at 1:42pm By: Normpo
Rondel Rondel A French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows: A B b a a b A B a b b a A. ... Started Jun 15^th, 2018 at 6:29pm by Just_Daniel	4	28	Jun 21^st, 2018 at 1:27am By: Normpo
Rubaʿi Rubaʿi is a poetic form of four lines of ten syllables It is rhymed aaba. Also known as the Omar Khayyam quatrain or Rubaiyat Stanza. I am posting two examples here: One quatrain from t... Started Jan 12^th, 2018 at 12:25am by Normpo	1	45	Jun 8^th, 2018 at 4:12pm By: Just_Daniel
Cento - Now has an Example with a modification (from Norm) Cento Cento comes from the Latin word for 'patchwork;' thus a cento is a literary patchwork from the works of several authors. A poetic cento, then, is a poem consisting solely of lines from the works of other po... Started Jan 13^th, 2009 at 6:22pm by Just_Daniel	9	190	Jan 6^th, 2018 at 1:25pm By: Just_Daniel
Mangled Limericks Just about everyone has written a Limerick, right? Well, let's say everyone has READ a Limerick? Once in a while I like to write what I have named, a *Mangled Limerick*. Here are a few of mine -- a... Started Nov 14^th, 2017 at 1:32am by Normpo	7	82	Dec 8^th, 2017 at 7:48pm By: Normpo
Brevettes A brevetted is a 3 line, 3 word poem with the middle line spaced out. Here is an example Peace b r I n g s harmony. ~Davidf Started May 26^th, 2014 at 12:52am by davidf	0	32	May 26^th, 2014 at 12:52am By: davidf
Footle Invented by Brian Stand, a footle is a 2 line form, that is one stressed and one un-stressed syllable in monorhyme. (they are supposed to be witty, but some of them of a darker nature) Here are ... Started Jul 7^th, 2013 at 1:21pm by davidf	0	26	Jul 7^th, 2013 at 1:21pm By: davidf
Odes Odes Odes are easy. They date back to the ancient Greeks, and a poet named Pindar, who lived from 522-442 bc. His subject matter revolved around the great heroes and games that were common in tha... Started Nov 23^rd, 2003 at 7:19pm by Jess	1	40	Jul 7^th, 2013 at 1:01pm By: davidf
Terzanelle A *terzanelle* is a 19-line poem of five triplets (3-line stanza) and a concluding quatrain (4-line stanza). It incorporates aspects both of a terza rima and a villanelle; the middle line of each tripl... Started Mar 16^th, 2013 at 8:41pm by Just_Daniel	1	30	Apr 16^th, 2013 at 10:39pm By: davidf
Cinquain ~ FOM June 07 Cinquain -- I have heard this pronounced as (SinQwian) or (SingKane) This form is derived from the Japanese haiku. Sometimes described as The American Haiku, the American Cinquain was develope... Started Aug 2^nd, 2003 at 4:18pm by YaBB-Developer « Pages 1 2 »	28	119	Oct 9^th, 2012 at 2:09am By: davidf
Triolet ~ F.O.M. January/February 2008 *How about we start off 2008 by trying a triolet, folks? - Daniel* So, what is a Triolet ... simple: About five hundred years ago when lyric poetry was the rage, poetic forms tended to become more... Started Sep 12^th, 2003 at 12:48am by Normpo « Pages 1 2 »	20	407	Jul 29^th, 2012 at 5:54pm By: Pen
Pantoum Pantoum The *Pantoum* is a repeating fixed form from Malaysia. It is written in quatrains, in which the second and fourth lines of one quatrain become the first and third lines of the succeeding quatrain... Started Sep 12^th, 2003 at 12:13am by Normpo	6	98	Jul 29^th, 2012 at 5:49pm By: Pen
tanka ~ FOM Sept/Oct 08 *Tanka* is a Japanese form of poetry of 31 onji; the closest we Americans come to that is to think in terms of 31 syllables. In Japanese, tanka is often written in one straight line, but in English and... Started Dec 18^th, 2003 at 5:54am by Just_Daniel « Pages 1 2 »	26	434	Apr 11^th, 2012 at 12:53pm By: Just_Daniel
Ghazal Post your own in this thread .... Ghazal (pronounced Ghu-zzle) poetry is an Iranian format, which consists of less than a dozen couplets, unified by rhyme and meter. In its form, the ghazal is a ... Started Nov 8^th, 2005 at 8:40pm by Normpo	6	131	Nov 28^th, 2011 at 2:44am By: davidf
Limerick ~ FOM Jul/Aug 08 I'm not going to offer any history or 'rules' about limericks here. Just note that the beasties are 5 lines of fun . . . and that they have three feet in the first and second lines; two feet in the t... Started Oct 8^th, 2003 at 12:51pm by Just_Daniel « Pages 1 2 ... 13 14 15 »	220	1895	Nov 28^th, 2011 at 2:33am By: davidf
Little Willies Little Willies Little Willies are a poetry form consisting of a quatrain in which the autonymous hero comes to an inglorious end... or helps someone else on the same route. These fun poems are at least... Started Nov 25^th, 2003 at 7:31pm by Jess	5	147	Sep 3^rd, 2011 at 6:18pm By: davidf
Ballad ~ Form of the Month, October 2009 Form of the Month for October 2009: Ballad *Ballads* fall into two categories, “street” and “traditional”. It is hard to say which of these styles is the older of the two, but it appears that the traditional b... Started Nov 23^rd, 2003 at 7:42pm by Jess	8	141	Oct 16^th, 2009 at 11:04am By: Just_Daniel
Blank Verse ~ FOM Sep 09 Blank Verse *Blank verse* is composed traditionally of unrhymed iambic pentameter... although many today argue that it may be of any metrical pattern and number of feet per line, though the iamb is predominant.<br /... Started Nov 23^rd, 2003 at 7:35pm by Jess	10	214	Sep 25^th, 2009 at 3:08pm By: Just_Daniel
Haibun ~ FOM Aug 09 Haibun Haibun is a combination of prose and haiku/senryu poems. It's focus is often on everyday experiences, but sometimes it focuses on a journey, and in the style of the originator of haibun, a Japanese mo... Started Aug 11^th, 2009 at 7:34am by Just_Daniel	2	70	Aug 17^th, 2009 at 3:33pm By: Just_Daniel
Table of Contents (Links) ABCDerius acrostic poem ae freslighe ballad ballade blank verse byr a thoddaid cacophany and euphany cento choka cinquain Clerihew clogyrnach coupletameter cyhydedd hir cywydd llogyrnog cyrch a cywta decima diamante epitaph Etheree faux-ku Fibonacci ghazal glosa / glose haibun huitain imagist poem kyrielle lanturne limerick lira Little Willies monotetra nonet pantoum paradelle paraprosdokian poem parody quatern quatrain quatrain refrain quintine rannaicheacht ghairid Rhopalic verse Rhupunt rictameter rondeau rondelet septoling sestina shadorma sijo sonnets [general] sonnet bref sonnet ~ 'free fall' sonnet ~ 'progressive' sonnet ~ Stefanile triadic star-crossed rhyme swap quatrains tanka terza rima tetractys triolet ubi sunt in poetry viator villanelle / villanella villianator villonnet virelai / virelay Welsh forms _{[ more to come as I have time -- Daniel ]} Started Jul 27^th, 2009 at 4:09pm by Just_Daniel	4	272	Aug 11^th, 2009 at 7:05am By: Just_Daniel
Villonnet Villonnet The *Villonnet* is a 15-line hybrid form derived from the classic *Villanelle* and *Sonnet* forms. It is, to the best of my knowledge, the creation of my own hand (which may or may not improve its value). It b... Started Jul 29^th, 2009 at 1:17pm by D. Allen Jenkins	3	111	Jul 31^st, 2009 at 8:50pm By: Just_Daniel
Parody Parody *Parody* is the imitation of the style of someone else's work or another genre. It relies on deliberate exaggeration to achieve comic or satirical effect. Since it is helpful to be familiar with... Started Jul 29^th, 2009 at 5:56pm by Just_Daniel	1	37	Jul 29^th, 2009 at 5:59pm By: Just_Daniel
Paraprosdokian Poem Paraprosdokian Poem Paraprosdokian specifically refers to a figure of speech -- a surprise ending. That being the case, the sole requirement of a [i][b]paraprosdokian...[/u]. The device can be melded into any style or typ Started Jul 29^th, 2009 at 4:13pm by Just_Daniel	0	27	Jul 29^th, 2009 at 4:13pm By: Just_Daniel
Ubi Sunt in Poetry Ubi Sunt *Ubi Sunt* [uubi suunt], a Latin phrase meaning ‘Where are...’ is a poetic theme in which the poet asks 'Where are' they? or Where have they gone?. The theme was often used in medieval Latin poems on the transitoriness of life an... Started Jul 29^th, 2009 at 3:51pm by Just_Daniel	2	21	Jul 29^th, 2009 at 4:00pm By: Just_Daniel

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