What I want is a poetic epic modeled after the Oddysey, Beowulf, Divine Comedy or the Illiad or any other that you can think of. I want nothing under 99 lines and nothing over a 1000 lines.
I want it form poetry. (sonnets, quints, sestets terza rima, ottave rima, ode, ballad, octaves, rubyiats or any other form that lends itself to this type of poetry. Quatrains and couplets not so enthusiastic about.)
What you have to have is a hero, a quest and an ending. What I expect is brilliance. Significant detail and a created world would help. Make it vivid, make the characters come to life with dialogue to die for. I want a story! I want it to enthrall me.
Rules:
1. State the form and its requirements in your AN's
2. Character names, a background story and color (lots of detail) is what I want. Plus a kick ass narrative that is epic in conception.
3. Have fun
I want it form poetry. (sonnets, quints, sestets terza rima, ottave rima, ode, ballad, octaves, rubyiats or any other form that lends itself to this type of poetry. Quatrains and couplets not so enthusiastic about.)
What you have to have is a hero, a quest and an ending. What I expect is brilliance. Significant detail and a created world would help. Make it vivid, make the characters come to life with dialogue to die for. I want a story! I want it to enthrall me.
Rules:
1. State the form and its requirements in your AN's
2. Character names, a background story and color (lots of detail) is what I want. Plus a kick ass narrative that is epic in conception.
3. Have fun
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 6
- Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: Gold-The crystal flame
A heroic epic in every sense of the word. With a line count of 750 and a difficult rhyme scheme you are the champ.
Silver-Herihahattr
I love this mythology and Beowulf like prose. I envy you this work.
Bronze-On the morning of Christ's nativity
As good as the first two, I think it deserved the gold also for form and content. Despite its brilliance my heart went to the first two.
HM's These writes were joys also. I thank you for their shares.
You all made this a successful contest.
Thank you!
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A twice-blessed pixie walked the forest path
Came to a clearing which brought tear-filled eyesby PerVirtuous 125 lines, 32 comments, on Apr 8 12:52 PM 2008. In Fantasy, Love, Spiritual
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The sweet swirling sounds of the Saracen cascading among the empty grasslands soothed the way for the winged warrior.
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Hell is where the heart goes when all the wells are dry, tragic moments on the road to Sparta. Across sunken skies , drunken orgies far fby spideracer 107 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 15 1:27 AM 2008. In Fantasy, War, Inspirational, Romance• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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I hear their secrets in passing winds, something evil is about to begin, when the sky turns dark when the day turns to night, the trumpetsby bloody wizard 2 0 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 30 1:06 PM 2008. In war• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Ah, how sad I had not seen it before. I was going to enter my poem Herihahattr. Though not modeled after any of those specific poems, it is an epic modeled after an ancient form of poetry, specifically that of Norse, and fits every other criteria. If not, Surely I could have written another.
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I have gone from a paying member to nonm-paying. If I edit I will lose the pictures. I can't add the forms to the AN so I will put the forms here. The narration is Ottiva Rima, Glynn speaks in Triolets, The Fairy speaks in Diamantes, The Crow speaks in a pantoum, towards the end Glynn sings her an English Sonnet.
Ottava Rima
A Ottava Rima is a poem written in 8-line octives. Each line is of a 10 or 11 syllable count in
the following rhyme:
one octive poem. abababcc
two octive poem. abababcc, dededeff
three octive poem. abababcc, dededeff, ghghghii
...so on and so on
Triolet
A Triolet is a poetic form consisting of only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines
repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital
letters representing the repeated lines.
Each line 8 syllables in length (4 metrical feet),
written in iambic tetrameter.
Diamante
A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape. The first line begins with a
noun/subject, and second line contains two adjectives that describe the beginning noun. The third line
contains three words ending in -ing relating to the noun/subject. The forth line contains two words that
describe the noun/subject and two that describe the closing synonym/antonym. If using an antonym for
the ending, this is where the shift should occur. In the fifth line are three more -ing words describing
the ending antonym/synonym, and the sixth are two more adjectives describing the ending
antonym/synonym. The last line ends with the first noun's antonym or synonym.
Pantoum
The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines
of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a
new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing
quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.
The design is simple:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
Line 6
Line 7 (repeat of line 4)
Line 8
Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanza then repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.
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Allen,
your entry is ****in' awesome. I know you understand both the concept of form and heroic epics. That you use mixed form to illustrate the various voices only wins more bonus points for me. Your explanatation of the forms is spot on and I appreciate that effort.
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Though I began writing another epic in a similiar style to the Poetic Eddas, it won't be done in enough time, I fear, nor am I far enough along in it to wish to post it. Sorry!
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