New Styles for AP I

It has been a good long while since I've written any educational columns for AP...or more precisely any column writes here on AP but that is soon to change.
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It has been a good long while since I've written any educational columns for AP...or more precisely any column writes here on AP but that is soon to change.

Now I admit as a writer & poetess, that learning something new is all the more fun in developing yourself a new regime of accomplishments with new forms/styles of writing and having to keep in mind of the guidelines for that particular style of writing and that Shadowpoetry. com has provided its fair share to AP for those wanting to learn something new, however, as of late, shadowpoetry really just got me bored so I decided to look for something new....something NO ONE has heard of and I found it on a site called, PoetryConnection.net.

I will bring out these styles and hopefully you'll love them as much as I'm loving to use them; keeping in mind each section talks and discusses about that group.


First group(some of you know these styles...minus one)
1. The Ballad
2. Blank Verse
3. Cinquain, traditional, Crapsey Cinquain, Quintilla, Recipe Poem
4. Haiku
5. Rictameter
6. The Rondeau and Rondeau Prime
7. The Sestina
8. Senryu
9. Sonnet, Sicilian Sonnet and Petrarchan or Italian Sonnet
10 Sonnet, Wyatt Sonnet and Spenserian Sonnet
11. Sonnet, Shakespearean Sonnet and Terza Rima Sonnet
12. Tanka
13. Trenta-sei
14. The Triolet

....but the thirteenth form will be my starter

Trenta-sei:
meaning 36, a form created by a 20th century American Poet, John Ciardi. Written in 6 sestets (6 line stanzas), each line of the first stanza takes its turn as the opening line of the ensuing stanzas. Like the Sestina, it is a strong pattern not likely to get lost in the language of the poem although it seems less "thought out" than the Sestina does. It also somewhat the feel of the Villanelle, because of the rotating repetition of the opening lines.

The Trenta-sei is:

1. narrative verse

2. usually written as accentual verse (the rhythm of today’s speech) with 5 stressed syllables per line

3. written in 6 sestets (6 line stanzas), 36 lines total

4. written with a rhyme scheme of a heroic sestet, ababcc

Example write by John Ciardi

A TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE IN THE EARLY DEATH
OF KEATS

It is old school custom to pretend to be sad
when we think about the early death of Keats.
The species-truth of the matter is we are glad.
Psilantropic among exegetes,
I am so moved that when the plate comes by
I almost think to pay the God--but why?

When we think about the early death of Keats
we are glad to be spared the bother of dying ourselves.
His poems are a candy store of bitter sweets.
We munch whole flights of angels from his shelves
drooling a sticky glut, almost enough
to sicken us. But what delicious stuff.

The species-truth of the matter is we are glad.
to have a death to munch on. Truth to tell,
we are also glad to pretend it makes us sad.
When it comes to dying, Keats did it so well
we thrill to the performance. Safely here,
this side of the fallen curtain, we stand and cheer.

Psilantropic among exegetes,
as once in a miles-high turret spitting flame,
I watched boys flower through orange winding sheets
and shammed a mourning because it put a name
to a death I might have taken--which in a way
made me immortal for another day.

I was so moved that when the plate came by
I had my dollar in hand to give to death
but changed to a penny--enough for the old guy,
and almost enough saved to sweeten my breath
with a toast I will pledge to the Ape of the Divine
in thanks for every death that spares me mine.

I almost thought of paying the God--but why?
Had the boy lived, he might have grown as dull
as Tennyson. Far better, I say, to die
and leave us a formed feeling. O beautiful,
pale, dying poet, fading as soft as rhyme,
the saddest music keeps the sweetest time

Another perfect example write of this stlye:

[The word psilanthropic in line 4 is a playful invention of Ciardi's that means "merely human." It comes from the greek psilos (mere) and anthropos (generic man)].

Game Six, a trenta sei (by Judi Van Gorrder)

Bonds at bat, Rodrigues paws the mound,
no outs, one strike, two balls, two more, will he walk?
Excited fans react with thunder stick sound
the summer sport disciples have come to gawk.
Illusive is the rocky road to fame,
a national favorite, a World Series game.

No outs, one strike, two balls, two more, will he walk?
It's the top of the sixth, no runners on base
he swings with quickening speed and powers the rock
I watch the ball soar high---to outer space,
and he does it again and jogs home to his fate;
his place in history, he'll not abdicate.

Excited fans react with thunder stick sound,
with rattle slap and clatter, when will it stop?
The noise so loud it shakes and rumbles the ground
like a stampede of horses running clippety-clop
and what is with that monkey on the stick?
If Giants should win, the angels will be sick!

The summer sport disciples have come to gawk
enjoying beer and hot dogs passing around
while spectators cheer, others in shock.
It's the thrill of the place, the faithful expound,
intensity builds increasing the sound of the din
and I pray for my team to bring home the big win.

Illusive is the rocky road to fame,
the team in red at home and now, down one.
My guys on the road, with ralley monkeys to tame;
a hit, the Angels scored, now this is no fun.
The top of the ninth, can we pull this one through?
My stomache 's in knots like I just got the flu.

A national favorite, a World Series game,
"strike three" he shouts--and number six is done,
tomorrow tells if hopes go up in flame.
Another nine innings and the best team has won,
we'll call them the champs and have a parade.
my hopes are the Giants will make the grade.
Judi Van Gorrde


There will be a four part column so just one down and three to go.