"Single-stanza" Blogs & Blog Posts

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...

I’m surprised I haven’t done the Etheree yet. The Etheree is a poetic form similar to the nonet in that it has a set meter per line; the difference being that the nonet only has nine lines, while the etheree has ten; and that while the no...

So, I was reading through Gregory Maguire’s “Wicked” (which I am loving, by the way, and of which I am an avid fan), and I happened across a chapter where Madame Morrible introduced a rather foreign poetic form called the Quell. Ess...

Flying Spaghetti Monster, do I hate diamontes! Well, not really, but they are quite difficult to write without sounding like a person muttering random words in a corner (and trust me, that wouldn’t be the first time I’d have done that). A...

I’ve been dying to write a limerick on the blog for ages. It’s one of my favorite poetic forms. It’s concise, fun, and if done correctly, acidic. A limerick has five lines in the pattern: AABBA. A-lines commonly have eight syllables...

Remember the rondel from way back in early July? Well, today’s poetic form is similar to it. Actually, scratch that. The rondelet is sort of a truncated version thereof. If you found the rondel easy, the rondelet is a piece of cake. The rondele...

The nonet is quite a fun poetic form. Its only restraint is that on meter: decreasing syllables from nine to one, graduating along the nine lines, but other than that, rhyming is optional. So basically, the first line would have nine syllables, the s...