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 15, 2021 · 11 Comments
A gregarious gaggle of greatly grandiose generalisms.
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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 8, 2021 · 9 Comments
An earful of emerging, elegant epitaphs and elucidations.
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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 June 1, 2021 · 20 Comments
A drenching downpour of delicious and delightful diatribes.
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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 25, 2021 · 16 Comments
A curated collection of cackles, caws, and critiques.
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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 18, 2021 · 21 Comments
A bulging bag of branded brain bribery.
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