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By Poeformology on Dec 11, 2011 in: Poetic Form, Poetry, Art, English, Hexameter, Math, Metered, Quatrain, Quintet, Sestet, Writing
From the number of views I got from the Collatz Poem poetic form I made, I’d say there are a lot more math-loving poets here than I thought! I thought I’d do another math-related poetic form today. Fortunately for those of you who aren...
By Poeformology on Dec 8, 2011 in: Applied Poeformology, Poetry, Art, English, Free-Form Form, Math, Metered, Writing
Of course, we all know what the Collatz Conjecture is. Wait. You don’t? Man, have you been missing out on some serious fun! (If by “fun,” you mean restless nights spending many an hour of your lifetime wasting away wondering whether the Collatz...
By Poeformology on Dec 4, 2011 in: Poetic Form, Poetry, Metered, Quatrain, Repetition, Rhyme Scheme
Not to be confused with the Ballade. These two are entirely different poetic forms. (The ballad is easier if you ask me, but the ballade is far more elaborate.) A common ballad is composed of several ballad stazas, or quatrains (four lines) of altern...
By Poeformology on Dec 3, 2011 in: Applied Poeformology, Poetry, Sestet, Tetrameter, Metered, Hexameter
Okay so, I realized that though I’ve not made much progress in my writing career, I have much to be thankful for. I have friends to thank. My family. Our two dogs. My best friend and personal editor. My then- but now-ex-boyfriend. E-publishing...
By Poeformology on Dec 1, 2011 in: Poetic Form, Poetry, Metered, Nonet, Rhyme Scheme, Single-Stanza
First of all, it has a cute name. Novelinee. Tee hee. The novelinee is a nine-line single stanza that may be written in iambic pentameter, or at least in decasyllabic lines (ten syllables). It follows the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDD. The novelinee may be...
By Poeformology on Nov 28, 2011 in: Poetic Form, Poetry, Rhyme Scheme, Sestet, Metered, Couplet
This is why I love the Brisbane sonnet: I’ve never heard of it before. Sure, we all know of Shakespearean sonnets or Petrarchans or Elizabethans—but what the heck is a Brisbane sonnet? A Brisbane sonnet, like every sonnet, has 14 lines; the diffe...
By Poeformology on Nov 21, 2011 in: Poetic Form, Metered, Tercet
So, what do you get when you combine the concepts behind the haiku and the acrostic? Well, you get a major headache, for one, and there’s the Haiku-Acrostic! What is the Haiku-Acrostic, you might ask. It’s a popular poetic form (okay, so it’s n...