Florette

The Florette, created by Jan Turner, consists of two or more stanzas for either of the two versions.

Version 1 - Quatrain Stanazas

Rhyme scheme: aaba , with interlaced rhyme in line four, where

                           syllable eight shares the "b" rhyme.

 Syllabic:           8,8,8,12 

Meter:               Iambic

Version 5 - Quintet Stanazas

Rhyme scheme:  aabba 

 Syllabic:             8,8,8,12 

Meter:                 Iambic

Sample Poem

Meeting for a Drink     (Florette)

While sitting near my fountain dear,

a pretty yellow finch appeared.

When he came by to say hello

it thrilled me much to simply know I wasn't feared.

He looked at me and seemed quite wise,

as seeing me was no surprise;

he groomed his feathers, and seemed to think,

then bowed to me and took a drink, just us two guys.

© Lawrencealot - November 28, 2013

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Essence

Stanzaic, consisting of any number of couplets

Isosyllabic, Hexasyllabic lines

Rhyme Pattern: xbxcxa xbacxa, where b and c are interlaced rhyme, AND c is optional.

      Note: The b and c rhymes can be found on any syllables.

• Essence is a rhyming hexasyllabic couplet with internal rhyme with a twist. Normally in English prosody "internal rhyme" refers to a word within the line rhyming with the end word of that line or the end word of the previous line. However in this verse form internal rhyme refers to words from somewhere within the line rhyming internally within the next line, it could be 1 or 2 rhymes. (This could be tricky in only 6 short syllables.) Found at ShadowPoetry.com and attributed to Emily Romano, published in P.O.E.T. magazine in 1981.
  The essence is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of couplets.
• syllabic, hexasyllabic lines.
• end rhymed as well as interlaced rhyme. x b x x c a b x c x x a The b and c interlaced rhymes may be placed in any position within the lines, the c rhyme is optional.

Two short lines with end rhyme
sort within, tend to time.
------Judi Van Gorder

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My great thanks to Judi of PMO, for the above.

II made one change in the description.  Instead of referring to the b and c rhymes as internal rhyme, I scalled them interlaced rhyme.

Rhyming a word in the middle of one line with a word in the middle of another is called interlaced rhyme.

Here, thanks to Bob Newman of Volecentral, is the most definitive list of rhyme types I have ever encountered.   http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/rhyme.htm

My  Example Poem

Bye Bye,  Bad Boy      (Essence)

Next time you reel me in

to climb and feel and sin,

I plan to take to bed

a man to slake instead.

© Lawrencealot - Thanksgiving day 2013

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Séadna (“shay´na”)

A couple of great sources, Check them out from links on this page.

Séadna is:

• written in any number of quatrains.
• syllabic 8-7-8-7.
• written with L1 and L3, 2 syllable end words; L2 and L4, 1 syllable end words.
• rhymed. L2 and L4 end rhyme, L3 rhymes with the stressed word preceding the final word of L4. There are two aicill-rhymes in the second couplet.
• composed with alliteration in each line, the final word of L4 alliterating with the preceding stressed word. The final syllable of L1 alliterates with the first stressed word of L2.
  
  x x x x x x (x a)
  x a x x x x b
  x x x b x x (x c)
  x b x c x x b

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Séadna (shay'-na):

A quatrain stanza of alternating octosyllabic lines with disyllabic endings and heptasyllabic lines with monosyllabic endings. Lines two and four rhyme, line three rhymes with the stressed word preceding the final word of line four. There are two cross-rhymes in the second couplet. There is alliteration in each line, the final word of line four alliterating with the preceding stressed word. The final syllable of line one alliterates with the first stressed word of line two.

B x x x x x (x a)

x x x x x x b

x x x x c x (x c)

x b x c x x B

Caring for the watercolor

I find you looking at me there

Blush to white palor, dim valor,

Thus, where its blue core had found care.

Kathy Anderson

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Example poem

Fight on Poet

Fight on against fear of failure;

cure your weary will and fright.

Pursue dreams; ignore cause killing

themes, write-- winning thrilling fight.

(c) Lawrencealot - July 4, 2012

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This is my 2nd attempt to write specs for this form.  It is without a doubt the most demanding poetry form I have encountered.  Since it is not possible to make a template that is much more than the equivalent of house plans on a napkin, handed to an architect...I have included the check list I referred to repeatedly while writing this one verse poem.

Besides being overly challenged for a long while; I chose a one verse poem so I could demo the Line 4 2nd word rhyme, and the first-last unity.

Enjoy...this form will help fight off dementia.

Romantic Stanza

Stanzaic:   Any number of quatrains.

Syllabic:    Multiple versions. I have seen 11/11/10/7, but documented here are:

                 the Wordsworth version: 11/11/11/7, and the 11/10/11/7 version.

Meter:     Dactylic, with the final foot being either catelectic or brachycatelectic

                (lacking either one or two syllables).  

Rhyme:    cross rhyme, end-rhyme abab.

Refrain:   The first 7 syllable of line one making up line 4.

Romantic stanza

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
Description:	Alternating quatrains of basically dactylic meter where lines one and three have eleven syllables, line two has ten, and line four is the first seven syllables of line one.
Attributed to:	Maksim Bahdanovic, stanza so named by Bob Newman
Origin:	Belarus
Schematic:	Rhyme: (Ba)baB Meter: Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx Xxx Xxx Xxx X Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx Xxx Xxx X
Starting Point:	With each quatrain, start with the first/last line, since that line establishes your rhymes.

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Maksim Bahdanovič (1891-1917) was the greatest lyric poet in the Belarusian language, and one of his best-loved poems is entitled simply Romance. It begins, "Venus, new-risen above us appearing..." The verse form it uses is unusual and quite tricky. There is no standard name for it, so I have chosen to call it the romantic stanza. As an example, here is an alternative version of a well-known poem by Wordsworth: Daffodils

Pasted from <http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/romance.htm>

The form was named Romantic Stanza by Bob Newman

Example Poems

Out Genesis

Clustering, combining dust aggregates in time

Assembling Hydrogen particles as they must

be a bit weightier so they may start their climb.

Clustering, combining dust.

Billions of our years go by with no life at all.

Galaxies born, made of stars that explode and die.

Pressures of their dying create life's wherewithal.

Billions of our years go by.

Busting outward from that blast, heavy elements

driven here by cosmic winds let know life commence.

all living things spring from cataclysmic events

bursting outward from that blast.

   © Lawrencealot - January 26, 2013

 unpublished

Since the specifications contain so much variance, I did the above in formal Dactylic tetramter, and the following in the indicated 11/10/11/7 format.

Neither are exactly the pattern used by the creator's famous poem.

 Our Genesis   (Romantic Stanza - 11/10/11/7 Version)

Clustering, combining dust aggregating

assembling Hydrogen just as it must.

Assembling atoms, Helium's a-making,

Clustering, combining dust.

Billions of our years gone by with life absent.

Galaxies born, made from stars as they die.

Pressures of their dying create content .

Billions of our years gone by.

Busting outward from that blast, all elements

required for biologic life at last.

All living things sprung from stars' final events,

bursting outward from that blast. 

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Guzzanele

This is a modern form created by mixing a Ghazal with a Villanelle.

Form Type: Syllabic
Origins: American
Creator: Thomas Rodes
Number of Lines: 22
Rhyme Scheme: A1+r,b,A2+r - a+r,b,A1+r - a+r,b,A2+r - a+r,b,A1+r - a+r,b,A2+r - a+r,b,A1+r,A2+r
Meter: Undefined


Rules

1. The form is created from 6 triplets and a quatrain.
2. Line one is repeated as lines 6, 12, 18, 21.
3. Line three is repeated as lines 9, 15, 22.
4. The 'a' rhyming lines all have the same refrain following after the rhyme.
5. Each stanza may enjamb within itself but must be a complete unit in itself, there is no enjambing across stanzas.
6. Each stanza should be free standing they don't need other sense to be a complete meaning unit. There doesn't need to be a linkage between stanzas.


Example Poem

Real Help Possible      (Guzzanelle)

Have humankind become concerned too late.

Are legates from the stars our only hope?

Have our sentient cousins returned too late.

If violence wins, then we have earned our fate?

Have we played out our ecologic rope?

Have humankind become concerned too late.

The recondite crop marks unlearned folks hate

are verified as messages of hope.

Have our sentient cousins returned too late.

Symbolic mathematics discerned of late

that human's self-hate carved a slippery slope.

Have humankind become concerned too late.

Some hate the Toran and some spurn the Pope.

In all fields of dogma, men only grope.

Have our sentient cousins returned too late.

We may leave fossil fuels unburned yet sate

our needs expanding in desire and scope.

Have humankind become concerned too late.

A profusion of wealth unturned awaits;

What man knows now is subpar, but we'll cope.

Have humankind become concerned too late.

Have our sentient cousins returned too late.

© Lawrencealot - February 15, 2013

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Margerinesoar Noir

Margerinesoar Noir  ( Dark winged beauty)
form was created by Amanda J. Norton on June 2, 2012..

All lines are 10 syllables.
All end-rhyme is mono-rhyme.
Interlaced separate mono-rhyme occurs on syllable 5 of each line.

The poem consists of two tercets, each followed by a couplet,
then a concluding quatrain.

The first line of the poem, is also the first line of the first couplet.

Finally, the 2nd line of the poem becomes the first line of the quatrain,
and the 2nd line of the first couplet becomes the
2nd line of the quatrain.


Example Poem

Use a New Form (Margerinesoar Noir)

Let us not abuse a form of our own.
A poet pursues truth with words on loan.
It should not confuse, lest poets disown.

Let us not abuse a form of our own.
Make pattern amuse, and not make folks groan.

Write of lover's coos, or of Fred Flintstone,
or paying our dues for chances we've blown,
of evil in pews, or wild oats we've sown.

Whatever your muse drops into your zone--
Remember to choose your own words alone.

A poet pursues truth with words on loan.
Make pattern amuse, and not make folks groan.
If words can bemuse then we'll not bemoan
the efforts we use to make it our own.


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