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Fibonacci Poems
A New Mathematical Form, by Georgia Luna Smith Faust
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com
http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/a/fibonaccipoems.htm
Fibonacci poetry is a literary form based on the Fibonacci number sequence. The sequence begins like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21. In order to find the next number in the sequence, you add the two preceding numbers. The sum of these two is the next number, which then is added to the one before it to get to the next number, and so on. This is how it works:
1 + 0 = 1
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 1 = 3
3 + 2 = 5
5 + 3 = 8
8 + 5 = 13
13 + 8 = 21
etc.
The Fibonacci sequence appears often in nature as the underlying form of growing patterns. For example, conch shells and sunflowers follow the pattern as they grow in a spiral formation that increases as it moves outward.
Fibonacci poems can embody the number sequence in two ways, either in numbers of syllables or in numbers of words. Some people write their poems so that each line contains the number of words of its place in the sequence, and some use the sequence to determine the number of syllables in each line. Both methods create very visual poems that display this naturally occurring growth pattern on the page (or screen).
So far, the writing of Fibonacci poems seems to be more popular among mathematicians than among poets. There are other mathematical poetry forms that can create interesting results, like the Oulipo school where writers use complicated constraints and algorithms to generate creative writing. Fibonacci poetry isn’t nearly as complicated as many traditional poetic forms like the sestina or the villanelle.
Fibonacci poetry is still very new but getting more popular. It has been featured in the Books section of The New York Times: “Fibonacci Poems Multiply on the Web After Blog’s Invitation,” by Motoko Rich (April 2006). There are several Web sites dedicated to Fibonacci poetry where people post the poems they write; one such site is Fibetry.com. The math/art journal Hyperseeing featured an article about Fibonacci poetry in its April 2007 issue.
~Georgia Luna Smith Faust
Terza Rima
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com
http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/terzarima.htm
Definition: Terza rima is poetry written in three-line stanzas (or “tercets”) linked by end-rhymes patterned aba, bcb, cdc, ded, efe, etc. There is no specified number of stanzas in the form, but poems written in terza rima usually end with a single line or a couplet rhyming with the middle line of the last tercet.
Dante Alighieri was the first poet to use terza rima, in his Divine Comedy, and he was followed by other Italian poets of the Renaissance, like Boccaccio & Petrarch. Thomas Wyatt & Geoffrey Chaucer brought terza rima into English poetry in the 14th century, Romantic poets including Byron & Shelley used it in the 19th century, and a number of modern poets from Robert Frost to Sylvia Plath to William Carlos Williams to Adrienne Rich have written terza rima in English -- all these despite the fact that English doesn’t offer nearly as many rhyming possibilities as Italian. That is why Robert Pinsky used near-rhymes & slant rhymes in his recent translation of The Divine Comedy, to reproduce Dante’s terza rima in English without the sing-song effect of strict repreating rhymes. Meter is not specified in terza rima, although most English poets using the form have done so with lines in iambic pentameter.
Ghazal
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com
http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/ghazal.htm
Definition: Like the pantoum, the ghazal arose in another language (in this case, Urdu) & has recently come to life in English despite the difficulties of technical translation. A ghazal is a short lyric poem composed of a series of about 5 to 15 couplets, each of which stands independently on its own as a poetic thought, but is linked through a rhyme scheme established in both lines of the first couplet & continued in the 2nd line of each following pair of lines. The meter is not strictly determined, but the lines of the couplets must be of equal length. Themes usually are connected to romantic love & longing, and the closing signature couplet often includes the poet’s name or an allusion to it.
Haiku
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com
http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/haiku.htm
Definition: Haiku is an unrhymed, syllabic form adapted from the Japanese: three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Because it is so brief, a haiku is necessarily imagistic, concrete & pithy, capturing a single moment in a very few words. Because the form has been brought into English from a language written in characters, in which a haiku appears on a single line, many poets writing haiku in English are flexible about the syllable and line counts, focusing more on the brevity, condensed form and “Zen” attitude of haiku. The traditional Japanese haiku requires some reference to nature or the season; thus the related short form of senryu is distinguished from haiku as being concerned with “human nature” or social & personal relationships.
Sestina
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com
http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/sestina.htm
Definition: The sestina is a challenging form in which, rather than simply rhyming, the actual line-ending words are repeated in successive stanzas in a designated rotating order. A sestina consists of six 6-line stanzas, concluding with a 3-line “envoi” which incorporates all the line-ending words, some hidden inside the lines. The prescribed pattern for using the 6 line-ending words is:
1st stanza 1 2 3 4 5 6
2nd stanza 6 1 5 2 4 3
3rd stanza 3 6 4 1 2 5
4th stanza 5 3 2 6 1 4
5th stanza 4 5 1 3 6 2
6th stanza 2 4 6 5 3 1
envoi 2--5 4--3 6--1
Like the sonnet, the sestina dates back to the Middle Ages, was adopted by the Italian poets of the Renaissance (Dante & Petrarch), and is often used by contemporary poets.
Villanelle
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com
http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/villanelle.htm
Definition: The word “villanelle” comes from the Italian villano (“peasant”), and a villanelle was originally a dance-song sung by a Renaissance troubadour, with a pastoral or rustic theme & no particular form. The modern form with its alternating refrain lines took shape after Jean Passerat’s famous 16th century villanelle, “J’ai perdu ma tourtourelle” (“I Have Lost My Turtle Dove”).
The villanelle is a poem of 19 lines, five triplets and a quatrain, using only two rhymes throughout the whole form. The entire first line is repeated as lines 6, 12 and 18 and the third line is repeated as lines 9, 15 and 19 -- so that the lines which frame the first triplet weave through the poem like refrains in a traditional song, and form the end of the concluding stanza. With these repeating lines represented as A1 and A2 (because they rhyme), the entire rhyme scheme is:
A1bA2
abA1
abA2
abA1
abA2
abA1A2
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Little Feather,ShelleyA, and Lyndon all have really good form contests opened right now.
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Classes on AP to learn form -
Class : Advanced Study of Haiku
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Class : Art of Refrains Six Rhyming Poetry Forms with Refrains
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Class : Beginning Haiku Class
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Class : Diamante Non Rhyming Form
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Class : Etheree Experiments
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Class : Form Poetry For Amateurs
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Class : Gentle Introduction to Meter
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Class : How to write a Sestina
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Class : Rhyming for Beginners 1
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Class : Rhyming For Beginners 2
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Class : Shape Poetry
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Class : Tanka style and mechanics
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Class : The Basic Elements of Poetry
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Class : The Sonnet
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Class : The Theory Of Rhyme
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