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View ArticlePoetic Potpourri
Hello. My name is Balladeer, a newbie on the site. I was invited in by John Wordslinger, who had seen some of my lessons on the internet and asked me to share some thoughts here. This is a poem I...
View ArticleClara Who!!!????
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) is remembered mainly for his classic detective story Trent's Last Case and for the humorous verse form that was named after him - the clerihew. It was at the age of...
View ArticleHelp Me, Rondel!
The rondel is a cute and tricky little French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows: ABba abAB abbaA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. See what...
View ArticlePut A Hexsonneta On Me!
The HexSonnetta consists of two six-line stanzas and a finishing rhyming couplet with the following set of rules:Meter: Iambic Trimeter Rhyme Scheme: a/bb/aa/b c/dd/cc/d ee Iambic Trimeter means the...
View ArticleLet's Do the Duo..
The Duo-rhyme, a poetic form created by Mary L. Ports, is a 10 or 12-line poem, with the first twoand last two lines having the same rhyme scheme, and the center of the poem (lines #3 through #8 or...
View ArticleParody Paradise
Here are five songs from the past. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to select one song and create a parody of it. If you don't know the songs, look them up on YouTube and listen....
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Alphabet Soup!
AN ABECEDARIAN POEM!What in the world is that, do you mumble? Simple..it is an acrostic poem using consecutive letters of the alphabet to begin the lines. You can begin with the letter A, which would...
View ArticleThe Acrossteree!
What's that? You've never heard of it?? I created it months ago to challenge a class I was teaching...and got some amazing results.The acrossteree is a combination of the loveable etheree (10 lines of...
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Time For Some ABC's
Let's go for the ABC ABC rhyme scheme, shall we?Stanzas will consist of lines 1 and 3 written in iambic heptameter and lines 2 and 4 in iambic pentameter. The internal rhymes of lines 1 and 3 will...
View ArticleAnyone up for a quatern?
QuaternA Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The first...
View ArticleGimmee a poem....and make it a triple!
A group of three lines is known as a triplet, or a tercet. Many forms can be created using triplets with different rhyme schemes. We can begin easy. Give me a poem using three triplets (or more) with...
View ArticleMe Terzanelle - You Game??
Ok, poetic geniuses. You have all aced every assignment so far so let's get just a wee bit more complex with....the TERZANELLE!The Terzanelle is a poetry type which is a combination of the villanelle...
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A Little Rispetto, please
A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry, is a complete poem of two rhyme quatrains with strict meter. The meter is usually iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd. A Heroic Rispetto iswritten...
View ArticlePolyptoton Paradise
A polyptoton is a variation of repeating the same word used in several different forms.The Greeks are strong and skillful in their strength,Fierce to their skill, and in their fierceness valiant;--...
View ArticleOne More Triple - the Villanelle
The villanelle consists of five triples followed by a quatrain to end the poem. Writing a villanelle is not difficult but making a villanelle interesting, is, based on the amount of times sentences...
View ArticleThose Smelly Feet!!!
Here are three of the main forms of meter in writing rhymed poetry - anapestic, trochaic and iambic.-------------------------anapestic----------------------------------When you WANT all the WORDS to...
View ArticleOk, brilliant students - I present the Triolet
This form stems from medieval French poetry - the earliest written examples are from the late 13th century. The triolet is a close cousin of the rondeau, another French verse form emphasizing...
View ArticleThe Mack Class Rules
Please follow the Schools Guidelines, and the website of yuku.com.When doing these assignments post your poemsin the threads assignment that you are doing.Be nice to each other, and be helpful.I will...
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WordSlingers Desk
Spiritual Embryos Yes you, and I dwellest barded We had found the place undisguisedOne can find; the gate is guardedBy the Spirit in reason, high Both realities coincideAnd become one, true and...
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