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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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Cywydd Llogyrnog Cywydd Llogyrnog Cywydd Llogyrnog is a 6-line Welsh form consisting of an 8-syllable rhymed couplet followed by a 7-syllable line cross-rhymed with the couplet in the middle and rhymes with the 6^th line of t... Started Jul 28^th, 2009 at 4:06pm by Just_Daniel	0	29	Jul 28^th, 2009 at 4:06pm By: Just_Daniel
Ballade Ballade A Ballade consists of three stanzas, each of eight or ten iambic pentameter lines, along with a brief envoi. All three stanzas and the envoi ending in the same one-line refrain — The envoi is a closing stanza dedicating the poem t... Started Aug 5^th, 2003 at 1:14am by alien	1	57	Jul 28^th, 2009 at 7:47am By: Just_Daniel
Sonnets I could not allow this part of the train to be sonnetless any longer. I am sure there are passengers on this train more informed than I about this wonderful form, so whatever I share will give deferen... Started Nov 5^th, 2003 at 11:00pm by D. Allen Jenkins	8	134	Jul 28^th, 2009 at 7:10am By: Just_Daniel
Shadorma ~ FOM June 09 Shadorma Shadorma [ \|i]shad-oor-muh[/i] ] is a syllabic poetic form reminiscent of haiku and tanka; it is written either as a single sestet or a series of sestets, each with a syllable count of 3-5-3-3-7-5: xxx... Started Jan 22^nd, 2007 at 5:54pm by Just_Daniel « Pages 1 2 »	23	283	Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 3:52pm By: writer
Kyrielle Kyrielle The Kyrielle was once a very popular French form and dates from the Middle Ages. It is a simple form written in quatrains (four lines of poetry) and it includes a refrain (repeat line, phrase, or word). It usually has eight syllables per line and most... Started Feb 19^th, 2004 at 2:26am by Normpo	2	106	Jun 22^nd, 2009 at 11:23am By: Just_Daniel
Fibonacci Again, from The Poets Garret: Fibonacci The renowned mathematician Fibonacci (c.1175 - c.1240) is responsible for this poetry form. He is responsible for the concept of a series of numbers produce... Started Apr 4^th, 2009 at 5:38am by writer	8	99	Jun 15^th, 2009 at 5:34pm By: Just_Daniel
Stefanile [Triadic] Sonnet Stefanile Sonnet Since we've just discovered this form and we have a couple of them posted here now, I guess it's time for us to learn a little about it. Its 'creator' was Felix Stefanile who, a... Started Jun 9^th, 2009 at 5:27pm by Just_Daniel	3	54	Jun 9^th, 2009 at 6:49pm By: writer
Sijo Sijo More ancient than haiku, the Korean SIJO shares a common ancestry with haiku, tanka and similar Japanese genres. All evolved from more ancient Chinese patterns. Sijo is traditionally compo... Started Oct 5^th, 2006 at 5:02pm by Normpo	5	135	Jun 8^th, 2009 at 10:00pm By: Just_Daniel
Monotetra ~ FOM Feb/Mar 09 The *Monotetra* is a relatively new poetic form developed around 2003 by Michael Walker of Shadow Poetry.com. Each stanza contains four lines in monorhyme, such that it rhymes aaaa bbbb cccc . . . . zzz... Started May 5^th, 2008 at 2:45pm by Just_Daniel	10	212	Mar 20^th, 2009 at 5:03pm By: writer
Lanturne Lanturne The lanturne (or lanterne) is a five-line light verse evidently derived from Haiku and shaped like a Japanese lantern (hence the name) with a syllabic pattern of 1 2 3 4 1 syllables. Sometimes descr... Started Mar 22^nd, 2008 at 12:12am by Just_Daniel	8	19	Feb 11^th, 2009 at 6:24pm By: Lucy
Tetractys ~ FOM Dec 08/Jan 09 Tetractys A verse in a tetractys consists of at least 5 lines using a specific syllable pattern for each verse.. Line 1 - has one syllable Line 2 - has two syllables Line 3 - has thre... Started Nov 23^rd, 2003 at 7:40pm by Jess « Pages 1 2 »	26	121	Jan 12^th, 2009 at 6:05am By: Ladygrace
Villainator Villainator ^note: Wayne took the time to develop this form without naming it, so I've given it a name till he decides to name it himself. - Daniel Noodling around tonight and got to thinking about f... TAKE JUST ONE STEP TOWARD LOVE AND SEE Take just one step Started Dec 30^th, 2008 at 7:39am by writer	5	91	Jan 1^st, 2009 at 3:13pm By: writer
faux-ku ~ FOM May 08 *faux-ku* *faux-ku* is my own ‘invention’ (The expression ‘faux-ku’ is not my own, but I utilize to indicate a specific form) to stretch the parameters of haiku/senryu to add the possibility of some serious humor. Thus the form m... Started Sep 15^th, 2003 at 1:52pm by Just_Daniel « Pages 1 2 »	22	332	Dec 17^th, 2008 at 9:06pm By: Just_Daniel
Viator This form was created by British-born Canadian poet and scholar Robin Skelton, the author of ‘The Shapes of Our Singing.’ [IMAGE] Simply, it is a poem consisting usually of four stanzas in which the 1st... Started Oct 30^th, 2003 at 10:01am by alien	8	144	Dec 6^th, 2008 at 6:28am By: writer
Villanelle Villanelle A villanelle or villanella is a 19-line poem of five tercets (3-line stanzas) and one quatrain (4-line stanza ), all with a specific rhyme scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa. Each line is of equal length with ... Started Dec 27^th, 2006 at 7:45pm by Just_Daniel « Pages 1 2 »	21	58	Dec 6^th, 2008 at 2:36am By: writer
Lanturne Lanturne The *lanturne* ( or lanterne ) is a five-line light verse evidently derived from haiku and shaped like a Japanese lantern (hence the name) with a syllabic pattern of 1 2 3 4 1 syllables. Sometimes described as a hal..., ther Started Apr 2^nd, 2008 at 7:54pm by Just_Daniel « Pages 1 2 »	22	147	Dec 1^st, 2008 at 4:38am By: Merrimuse
Virelay or Virelai *Virelay* is the English version of the word, virelai, French. We cannot escape the French definitions of the word because the French of the 11th - 12th centuries created the form. There are three ... Started Nov 18^th, 2008 at 4:20pm by literarius	1	22	Nov 21^st, 2008 at 4:00pm By: Just_Daniel
Rondeau ~ FOM Mar 07 The standard literary rondeau is usually found as fifteen octo- or decasyllabic (8- or 10-syllable) lines divided into three stanzas, a quintet, quatrain and sestet (5-, 4- & 6-line stanzas). The Ref... Started Aug 5^th, 2003 at 1:26am by alien « Pages 1 2 3 4 »	50	164	Nov 18^th, 2008 at 11:18pm By: writer
Rondelet The *Rondelet* is another French form, and a member of the rondeau family. That family of forms uses refrains. The challenge is to make the refrain one that is meaningful ...[/u][/i] and all other lines eight syllables. However Started Aug 29^th, 2008 at 1:12pm by Just_Daniel	4	75	Nov 16^th, 2008 at 8:21pm By: literarius
haiku ( and senryu ) ~ FOM Mar/Apr 08 *haiku* To greatly over-simplify, *haiku* is a traditional Japanese form of poetry utilizing 17 or less sound-symbols (onji) somewhat similar to our syllables to create a two-view impression in three lines, i... Started Jan 19^th, 2007 at 5:07pm by Just_Daniel « Pages 1 2 3 4 »	48	50	Sep 22^nd, 2008 at 2:15am By: Poppy
Swap Quatrains ~ FOM June 08 *Swap Quatrains* Swap Quatrains are an invention of an old friend, Lorraine M. Kanter, proprietor of Mosaic Musings. Her parameters are simply that each quatrain stanza must form of a kind of reversal of L1 i... Started Jun 3^rd, 2008 at 12:33am by Just_Daniel	12	131	Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 3:06pm By: Just_Daniel
Terza Rima The *Terza Rima* is an Italian form of poetry. It follows a strict interlocking rhyme pattern but the form has no limit on the length. Dante is credited with inventing it in the 1300’s and in 19... Started Aug 2^nd, 2003 at 4:16pm by YaBB-Developer	5	97	Apr 30^th, 2008 at 12:41pm By: Just_Daniel
Acrostic Poem ~ FOM Jan 07 Originally posted by Jess (in other words, he owns the copyright to this description) Acrostic Acrostic poems have a rather long history. Although it isn’t clear when they were first produced, the earliest examples of thi... Started Aug 27^th, 2003 at 6:42pm by YaBB-Developer « Pages 1 2 3 »	33	400	Apr 19^th, 2008 at 3:56pm By: WildCityWoman
Clerihew The *Clerihew* was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. He was a teenager at the time and the poems were meant to be funny and short. [i]They are four lines long and have an aabb r... Here is mine: Clerihews: My Very Last Clerihew My skill with La Started Feb 23^rd, 2004 at 11:29pm by Normpo	8	154	Apr 1^st, 2008 at 3:31pm By: Just_Daniel
Ethere *Ethere* [\|i]eh-thuh-ray[/i]] consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. Ethere may also be reversed (inverted) and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. When writing multiple stanzas, the pa... Started Aug 20^th, 2007 at 6:26pm by Just_Daniel « Pages 1 2 »	18	43	Dec 25^th, 2007 at 10:15pm By: davidf

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