Posted by Brad Osborne on June 18, 2021 · 9 Comments
He took the name from ‘catena’, which means chain, and connected it with ‘rondo’, which means circle. And the poem is a bit of a ‘chain circle’, because of its intense repetition within stanzas and within the poem as a whole.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 11, 2021 · 3 Comments
Rondel is a French poetic form composed of 13 lines in 3 stanzas. It incorporates refrains…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 4, 2021 · 18 Comments
This is a simple, quick, and fun exercise of word association in poetic form. Give it a try and release your inner poet!
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 28, 2021 · 14 Comments
A rispetto is a very old Italian poetic form and its age has spawned many definitions, but the two most common variations are these:
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 21, 2021 · 17 Comments
…one of my all-time favorite poems, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,’ by Robert Frost, executes interlocking rubaiyat to perfection.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 7, 2021 · 17 Comments
Rondel is a French poetic form composed of 13 lines in 3 stanzas that incorporates refrains.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 30, 2021 · 10 Comments
Gerard Manley Hopkins invented the curtal sonnet in the 19th century.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 16, 2021 · 18 Comments
Unlike the many classical forms we have already covered in this series, the Tricube is a newer form and relatively unknown. Plus, it is fun and easy to learn.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 9, 2021 · 10 Comments
The Rime Couee is a French poetic form that uses six-line stanzas with a 3-part rhyme scheme and variable line lengths.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 2, 2021 · 13 Comments
The stornello is an Italian tercet (or 3-line stanza) form with 11 syllables per line and an AAA end rhyme.
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