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Columns by Rebekah-Ann, by newest first

  • Elegancahew by Rebekah-Ann
    The Elegancahew was born from the form Zayinkahew [http://allpoetry.com/column/show/2347479]
  • Zayinkahew by Rebekah-Ann
    Zayinkahew is a poetic form founded by Rebekah-Ann Bellingan and inspired by Aneka Bellingan.

    This form consist of seven lines and seven syllables per line. The first two lines is an adoption of any well known nursery rhyme.
  • The Villanelle by Invented by Jean Passerat (1534-1602), from Rebekah-Ann
    "The word villanelle, or villenesque, was used toward the end of the sixteenth century to describe literary imitations of rustic songs. Such villanelles were alike in exhibiting a refrain which testified to their ultimate popular origin. The villanelle was, in a sense, invented by Jean Passerat (1534-1602)."

    Passerat's poem about a turtledove is said to be the singular originator of the scheme described by Turco.

    "Passerat had written other villanelles, so-called, that did not conform to this model at all. The great Hellenist was undoubtedly aware of the innovation that he had introduced, but the form caught the attention of his contemporaries and became fixed in his lifetime. Pierre Richelet and other writers on the theory of poetry designated as villanelles only those poems that conformed to Passerat's classic example."
    --from Lyric Forms from France, by Helen Louise Cohen.