HISTORY & ORIGINS
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WRITE IT!
SCAN IT!
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This form was NOT actually a French fixed form from the 11th century.
What is the paradelle
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The number of syllables in a Haiku.
What is seventeen?
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This form repeats two refrains over the course of nineteen lines.
What is the villanelle?
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Two five syllable lines.
Again the train passed, a metallic wind
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I quarrel not with destiny.
What is u / u / u / u / (iambic tetrameter)
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Edward Lear invented this poetic form.
What is the limerick.
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The number of times each repeating word appears in the sestina.
What is seven?
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This form of poetry takes its name from the Italian for "third rhyme."
What is terza rima?
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iambic trimeter (2 lines)
The thing I want to say is difficult to speak
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There once was a gerund named Angling.
What is u / u u / u u / u (Limerick)
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English is a hybrid of these two "streams" of language.
What are Latin and Anglo-Saxon?
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The one steadfast rule of accentual verse.
What is an identical number of stresses in each line.
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This form of poetry takes its name from the Latin for "shaped song."
What is Carmina Figurata?
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Iambic pentameter (one line)
The chipmunk dives into another hole
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Welcome all that lead or follow
What is / u / u / u / u (trochaic tetrameter)
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What ancient and anonymously authored poem is a prime example of English accentual verse?
What is Beowulf?
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A Haiku must contain this "season word."
What is the kigo?
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This form of poetry can be narrative or quantitative.
What is syllabic verse.
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anapestic trimeter
home is the place I am heading for or the stars in the sky were spectacular
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And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
What is u / u u / u u / u u / (anapestic)
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Anglo Saxon poets added these two important acoustic elements to the basic rule of accentual verse.
What are alliteration and medial pause?
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In the Ghazal, this refrain occurs twice in the matla, or opening couplet.
What is the radif?
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This poetic form uses a quotation or name as a center string (a row down the middle) that determines what words will be chosen from source texts.
What is the mesostic?
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The first three lines of a sestina, using the words basket love bright
We gathered food into a basket and, because we were in love, picnicked that afternoon in the bright
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Horses aren't always averse to bridles
What is / u / u / u u / u / u (sapphic)
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