"Poetic Form" Blogs & Blog Posts

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...

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...

I lost a good deal of hair writing the poem below. The square poem is just that much of a challenge, but it is worth it. A square poem has no fixed number of lines or stanzas, so in that sense it’s free-form, but it does follow a strict alterna...

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...

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...

I’ve not written much of my novel for National Novel Writing Month lately, so I’ve seen it fit to procrastinate through Poeformology. EDIT: This is why I hate NaNoWriMo. I lose my ability to think. Turns out there’s already a Diagonal Acros...

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...