Posted by Brad Osborne on July 23, 2021 · 11 Comments
The Trenta-Sei form was created by the poet John Ciardi. It’s a 36-line poem (the word “Trenta-Sei” is Italian for 36) that has a rhyme pattern and refrains.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 16, 2021 · 15 Comments
The Magic 9 is a newer form and relatively unknown. In fact, I couldn’t find a creator of the form, though it appears to have been inspired by a poet misspelling the word ‘abracadabra’.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 9, 2021 · 11 Comments
Clogyrnach is a Welsh poetic meter that falls under the poetic form of odes. Clogyrnach are composed of any number of 6-line stanzas.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 2, 2021 · 10 Comments
The Landay is a variable length form based off a couplet, which means the poem could be as concise as two lines or run on for several pages. The form most likely originated with nomads in the area of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 25, 2021 · 8 Comments
I think part of the reason I find Irish forms so difficult is that the rhymes can be so intense, and that is definitely the case with the Ae Freislighe (pronounced – ay fresh-lee).
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 18, 2021 · 10 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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