Flaked snow queen, filtering, down, words
through the clouds, frosty shrouds, drift, sing
Sweet tender, she sends her, snow, birds
into the, caroling, grow, wing
Forests give, rise to a, core, rush
when the melt, gathers the, gold, dust
Tiny sprites, gain in might, push, pull
dry lower, land ever, thank, full
Author notes
Dance: Waltz
Personification: Snowflake(and water)
Note: To realize the Waltz effect, give the first 6 syllables one beat in each line and give the last two words three beats each. For example:
Flaked snow queen, fil-ter-ing dooooooown wooooords
Rispetto
A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry,
is a complete poem of two rhyme quatrains
with strict meter.
The meter is usually iambic tetrameter
with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd.
A Heroic Rispetto is
written in Iambic pentameter,
usually featuring the same rhyme scheme.
A contest entry
- Rhythms of Rispetto by Pamela A Lamppa.
1750 points, ended January 12, 2008, 7 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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Oooh you did waltz beautifully with this Rispetto and your snowflake simply came to life.
I loved this unique and most creative presentation.
Well done.
You have penned well for these prompts. Bravo poet! ~Pamela
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Thank you P.A.L. Your contests are challenging. I seem to nearly give up then I have my "ah-ha" moment
Paul
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Beautiful
I saw this contest and wonder how to do it. Very good. Thank you for your comments on my write.
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Thank you Talloaks. To someone like me not used to the strict form it was a bit like trying to eat soup in a straight jacket. A definite learning experience. lol
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Beautiful and an elegant rhythm for the tongue
to dance to. Snowflakes are tiny petals themselves
and I adore the tie-in of sprites. Blue
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Thank you Blue Rew. It was one of my more rigorous learning experiences, that's for sure. But I did glean alot about writing from it.
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U R one clever cowboy
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This does give the feel of snow filtering down but for a waltz I would have liked to see the words (or at least syllables) grouped in threes perhaps. Creative take on the prompt here, though. Good luck.
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Thank you for your comment.
This Rispetto has to strictly adhere to only 8 syllables per line. As you can see 8 is not divisible by 3 to match the 3/4 time of the dance, thus I had to improvise.
This in the author's notes:
To realize the Waltz effect, give the first 6 syllables a value of one beat in each line and give the last two words in each line a value of three beats each. For example:
Flaked snow queen, fil-ter-ing, dooooooown wooooords
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This is really beautiful I love the way you wrote it out
I wish you te best of luck in the contest Cara
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Thank you Cara. I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was a callange to get the syllables to line up with the type of dance.
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