List: Retourne


Retourne:
Like so many other French forms, the Retourne is all about repetition. It contains four quatrains (four-line stanzas), and each line has eight syllables. The trick is that the first stanza's second line must also be the second stanza's first line, the first stanza's third line is the third stanza's first, and the first stanza's fourth line is the fourth stanza's first. Retournes do not have to rhyme.


  • Waterfall
    19 lines, 2 comments, on May 2 9:23 PM. In Adult
  • Waterfall
    19 lines, 2 comments, on May 2 9:23 PM. In Adult
  • Wherever My Hat is Hung
    Wherever my hat can be hung that’s always where I have to go.
    33 lines, 1 comment, on May 16 10:52 PM
  • Feral cats
    34 lines, on May 16 11:44 PM. In Adult
  • Charge Into History
    What do we know of Yellow Hair.
    Custer Commander of the Seventh.
    153 lines, 3 comments, on May 31 7:58 PM
  • Sugar
    I have never tasted such wine Upon lips as red and as soft
    21 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 23 7:04 PM

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