Oh and one more thing....
since some of these styles haven't been written OR could not be found on Shadowpoetry.com, I will give example writes for them(and the numbering will continue from the first part).
15. Barzaletta
16. Kasa
17. Luc-bat
18. Ottava Rima or Sonnetto Rispetto
19. Pantoum
20. Poulter's Measure
21. Rhyme Royal
22. Roundel
23. Sapphic Stanza
24. Short Measure
25. Spenserian Stanza
26. Terza Rima
27 Villanelle
>Barzaletta: or “carnival song”, a nonsense poem from 15th century Italy developed from the Frottola a 14th century epigram (as jokes with didactic content). The Barzaletta was originally written for musical settings.
The Barzaletta is:
1. lyrical
2. metered, often iambic, line length optional although originally octasyllable.
3. written in couplets
4. often written employing internal rhyme, end words are usually unrhymed
5. written with wit and a didactic (instructional) and/or aphoric (concise statement of scientific principal) tone.
6. often follows other poetic forms.
Example write: mongol.jinak.cz/index.php?article=womanslife
OR
Between the ages of 15 - 20, a woman is like Africa.
She is half discovered, half wild.
Between the ages of 20 - 30, a woman is like America.
Fully discovered and scientifically perfect.
Between the ages of 30 - 35, she is like India & Japan.
Very hot, wise and beautiful.
Between the ages of 35 - 40, a woman is like France.
She is half destroyed after the war but still desirable.
Between the ages of 40 - 50, she is like Germany.
She lost the war but not the hope.
Between the ages of 50 - 60, she is like Russia.
Very wide, very quiet but nobody goes there.
Between the ages of 60 - 70, a woman is like England.
With a glorious past but no future. (author is unknown)
>The Kasa
kasa (songwords), 15th-19th centuries Korean poetry. It is compared to the Chinese rhyme prose (fu). The Korean language is very different from Chinese, however until the 15th century when the Korean alphabet was invented, Chinese was the written language used by the Koreans. The learned men continued to use mostly Chinese although some important works began to appear in Korean. The earliest Korean poems date back to the 6th century but are difficult to separate from the Chinese because of the language use.
The Kasa, (song words) is:
1. lyrical
2. syllabic, lines written in alternating groups of 3 and 4 syllables (total 7 syllables) forming a line
3. written in stanzas which can vary in number of lines
4. tends to describe or expose
5. written from unrequited love, patriotism, daily life, nostalgia, etc.
#1
Chants of peace, sung in anger,
defeat dream, contradict cause.
-Judi Van Gorder
#2
heady rush, thrill of new love,
commitment becomes burden,
family is sacrificed,
vows broken, children pay price
>Luc-bat, six-eight, Vietnamese poetry.
The luc-bat is Viet poetry developed from the early Buddhist Monks and Confucian scholars and folk verses sung by minstrels and peasants at festivals. The most popular verse is the six-eight (luc-bat) couplet form, a Viet innovation in which a line of six monosyllabic works is followed by a line of eight. The form is made up of a number of tonal rhythms and with both end and medial rhyme. It is not metric in the sense of stressed or not. There is, in Vietnamese, a syllabic tone in the pattern.
The Viet poem The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du alternates between flat or even tones and sharp or oblique tones which cannot be duplicated in English.
Tram nam trong coi nguoi ta
Chu tai chu menh kheo la ghet nhau
Trai qua mot cuoc be dau
Nhung pieu trong thay ma pau pon long
The luc-bat is:
1. lyrical
2, syllabic, alternating hexasyllable (6) and octasyllable (8 ) lines which can continue almost without limit, the number of lines can reach several thousand in the case of long narratives The early pieces were meant to be chanted, and later became limited block print editions circulated among friends and connoisseurs and printed in ch nom, the script of the 11th century.
3. written with a rhyme scheme of sssssA sssssAsB sssssB sssssBsC sssssC sssssCsD and so on.....
4. is suited for poems of proverbs and sayings, work songs , love songs, children’s songs, lullabies and riddles.
Taking Care of Business
Procrastination stays
detached from work and plays the game
to seem employed. I tame
the urge to flee the blame and keep
eyes averted then leap
sideways or pretend sleep. Beware
the tempting fun trap, dare
take charge, avoid the snare, begin
with one small part, grin
in expectation, pin your goal,
ready, set, rock and roll.
>Poulter's Measure
Poulter’s Measure, originating in England, 16th century, is a rhyming couplet made up of an Alexandrine (iambic hexameter broken by a caesura) and a fourteener (iambic heptameter). Because the total metric feet of the couplet is 13, the pattern gets its name from the poultryman’s tradition of giving an extra egg with the second dozen. If the couplet were to be broken into 4 lines it becomes Short Measure.
Poulter’s Measure is:
1. Narrative poetry.
2. Accentual syllabic, usually iambic, couplet (2 lines).
3. Made up of an Alexandrine, (iambic hexameter (6 feet) broken by a caesura.) and a fourteener, iambic heptameter (7 feet).
4. Rhyme scheme aa.
from Complaint of Her Lover, Being Upon the Sea
Good ladies, ye that have your pleasures in exile,
Step in your foot, come take a place and mourn with me a while;
And such as by their lords do set but little price,
Let them sit still, its skills them not what chance come on the dice.
But ye whom love hath bound by order of desire
To love your lords, whose good desserts none other would require,
Come ye yet once again and set your foot by mine,
Whose woeful plight and sorrows great no tongue can well define.
-- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517 – 1547)
Incendiary
The acrid smell of smoke, the suffocating air
precedes the leaping flames that play like children without care.
The blazing fingers flick and snap, to fling sparks high,
and send the fiery cinders far and light the blackened sky.
- Judi Van Gorder
>Rhyme Royal
Rhyme Royal Stanza or Rime Royal is a stanza which probably originated in France in the late 13th century as a deviation of the ottava rima or the chant royal. The stanza was originally written for ceremonies celebrating the entry of royals into the city as well as in mock ceremonial festivals put on by guilds. First used in English by Chaucer, Trolius and Criseyde therefore the form has sometimes been called the Chaucerian Stanza. But, because King James also chose this form for some of his writings, royalty won out and the more popular name became Rhyme Royal.
Rhyme Royal is:
1. lyrical poetry that is flexible and can be written in the narrative or descriptive. It can also be written as a digression, commentary or literary burlesque.
2. in French, decasyllabic, in English it is usually written in iambic pentameter.
3. a septet (7 lines). There is no limit on number of stanzas written.
4. a Sicilian triplet, aba, followed by a quatrain made up of 2 heroic couplets bbcc, the first of which interlocks with the triplet. Rhyme scheme ababbcc.
Bird’s Eye View
The queen, upon her high Madrone-limb throne,
was taking count of those who serve her court
when, through the glass, she spied her kind. Alone,
oh how she longs to join in their cavort.
Although, her royal duty can be sport
if feline subject dares to lurk too near,
then beak and talon strike, enforcing fear.
-Judi Van Gorder
>IX. The Sapphic strophe or fragment, (so called because mostly only fragments of Sappho's work still survive). It is attributed to the poetess Sappho originating in Greece on the Island of Lesbos in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.. Plato so admired her, that he elevated her status from lyricist, poet to the 10th Muse. Her poems dealt with feelings and have often became synonymous with woman-love. Sappho schooled and mentored women artists in a male dominated era."Rather than addressing the gods or recounting epic narratives such as those of Homer, Sappho's verses speak from one individual to another." New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Preminger and Brogan 1993. Only two of her poems have survived in whole with the vast majority of her work surviving in fragments, either from neglect, natural disasters, or possibly censorship.
Sapphic Strophe is:
a. . a quatrain, (4 lines) which evolved during the Renaissance from the ancient strophe which usually included 3, sometimes 4 lines, depending on whether or not the 3rd line was split.
b. written with 3 Sapphic lines, (originally lessor Sapphic lines) 11 syllable, trochaic lines with the central foot being a dactyl and followed by a 4th adonic line, 5 syllables, a dactyl followed by a trochee. The adonic line or (colon), is written as a parallel to the third line of the quatrain.
d. The modern Sapphic scansion should look like this (Stressed
Su / Su / Suu / Su / Su
Su / Su / Suu / Su / Su
Su / Su / Suu / Su / Su
Suu Su
with substituted spondee
Su / SS / Suu / Su / SS
Su / SS / Suu / Su / SS
Su / SS / Suu / Su / SS
Suu / Su
e. Originally unrhymed, in the Middle Ages the strophe acquired rhyme, rhyme scheme abab. Because of the predominant use of trochee and dactyls the rhyme will generally be feminine or a 2 syllable rhyme
with the last syllable unstressed.
---------- a Sappho fragment
Sweet child, with garlands be thy tresses bound,
Twine marjoram with woodbine, sprat with spray;
The gods love those who come with chaplets crowned,
From those ungarlanded they turn away
--------- --translated by A. C. Benson (1862 – 1925)
(note this translation is in rhyme, which was added in the Middle Ages, the original Greek does not appear to be rhymed) I am hoping this is old enough I don't have a problem with copywrite.
I read, in the original Greek, Sappho calls the child by name (capitalized and speaks of Charities rather than using the word “gods”).
--------------Transformation
Passion, lust, consumed our beginnings fully.
When did Eros turn without warning, changing
greed to love? It happened deceptively,
----------- tricking emotions.
- Judi Van Gorder
Sculptured Heart
Here are fragments, shards to show bits of myself.
Writing, I give glimpses into my bared heart,
With each poem, I place a piece on shared shelf;
--------------- life as displayed art.
---Judi Van Gorder
For more of this particular form go to:
www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C05070E
>Short Measure or Short Meter
Short Measure or Short Meter, is a variation of “Common Measure”, an accentual syllabic verse of the English hymn. Originating in England in the 16th century, originally meant to be lyrics set to music. When consolidated into 2 lines, it becomes Poulter’s Measure.
Short Measure is:
1. Lyrical poetry.
2. A quatrain written in accentual syllabic verse, most often iambic.
3. The lines of the quatrain
--------- line 1 – trimeter (3 feet)
--------- line 2 – trimeter (3 feet)
--------- line 3 – tetrameter (4 feet)
--------- line 4 – trimeter (3 feet)
4. Rhyme scheme abcb.
Part Two: Nature XXII
A BIRD came down the walk
He did not know I saw
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad
They looked like frightened beads, I though
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim
-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
If you want my honest opinion, some of these forms look difficult but nonetheless fun to do and/or try.Hope you enjoy what Im bringing to AP with something new but keep in mind that what forms that I did not write about could be found on Shadowpoetry.com
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