Blog Posts on poetic form

46. Blank Verse by Poeformology on May 26, 2012I apologize for the lack of content. I’ve taken a break from writing poetry to reexamine why I haven’t been enjoying it as much. Writing just hasn’t been what it used to be for me when I was eight years old. It’s part rejectio...

45. Roundelay by Poeformology on Apr 13, 2012The roundelay is a poetic form composed of any number of quatrains (four-liners) that are made up of two couplets (two-liners). It follows the rhyme scheme: bbaA ccaA ddaA, and so on, where the second couplet of each quatrain (the “aA”) i...

44. Rondine by Poeformology on Apr 5, 2012Two stanzas: one septet, one quintet. Abbaabr abbar, where r is the refrain, which is the first phrase of the first line. Tetrameter or pentameter. I’m not feeling well. Forgive me. This sucks. Hurry. Watch as it plays on the stage: A devilish...

43. Saraband by Poeformology on Mar 21, 2012I am convinced that I have no talent for this. I have received a lot of rejection letters the past few weeks, most from fledgling literary magazines; if I can’t publish with them, how can I hope to ever be an author? And if I have no talent for...

42. Novelinee Sequence by Poeformology on Mar 10, 2012It’s taken me some time, but I’ve finally found the perfect theme to make a novelinee sequence with. If you’ll recall, I mentioned in the novelinee post that a sequence had a structural difference to a single-stanza novelinee. It is...

40. Canzone by Poeformology on Feb 27, 2012The canzone is a real head-scratcher. It’s one of those few poetic forms that require a touch of improvisation, which can be nice for those of you who aren’t into strict structural rules, but can be quite a puzzle for those of you who pre...

39. Rispetto by Poeformology on Feb 24, 2012Yes, this poetic form is Italian. I have taken a liking to Italian poetic forms over the years. A rispetto is usually about love, since its name means “respect” for a loved one[1]. It is an octave divided into two quatrains in either abab...

38. Dodoitsu by Poeformology on Feb 20, 2012Yes, don’t worry. I’m still very much alive. It isn’t that school has left me with not a single minute to write. It’s just that I’ve been going through a literary crisis, one which has left me artistically paralyzed, and now questioning the...

37. Curtal Sonnet by Poeformology on Dec 11, 2011From the number of views I got from the Collatz Poem poetic form I made, I’d say there are a lot more math-loving poets here than I thought! I thought I’d do another math-related poetic form today. Fortunately for those of you who aren...

35. Ballad by Poeformology on Dec 4, 2011Not to be confused with the Ballade. These two are entirely different poetic forms. (The ballad is easier if you ask me, but the ballade is far more elaborate.) A common ballad is composed of several ballad stazas, or quatrains (four lines) of altern...