"Tercet" Blogs & Blog Posts

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...

I was feeling bored today, so I thought I’d try my hand at making an original poetic form. Yes, the first one on this blog (but not the first one I’ve made). Now. The Guillion. It is a poetic form composed of three quatrains and one concl...

The haiku is perhaps one of the most relaxing poetic forms. I mean, all you have to remember is the 5/7/5 meter, and you’ll be fine. In fact, some poets and haiku enthusiasts commonly overlook the meter and simply write whatever the hell they l...

Structurally speaking, a senryu does not differ much from the haiku. But take into account the theme of the senryu, and you’ve got a whole other story. The senryu, like the haiku, follows a 5/7/5 meter (which is, by the way, optional), and has...

The villanelle is another beautiful French poetic form. I barely encounter forms which make use dominantly of tercets instead of the usual quatrains. You’d think because a tercet is composed of three lines that it would sound uneven or jarring,...

What is a tau-ku, you ask? I’m not entirely sure, either. It’s one of many variations of the haiku, which is a three-line Japanese poem (usually with the theme of nature) in a 5/7/5 meter. The catch is, a Tau-Ku is in 6/2/8. Twice as much...

I felt up for a challenge today, so I decided I’d do a sestina and get it over with this early on. It isn’t too long ago that I discovered what a sestina was. I thought I’d give it a shot; it looked like fun at the time (and it is).