Gervic's Poetic Explorations

The cascade poem was a form invented by Udit Bhatia (who also apparently created the Alliterisen, which I'll try to deal with in a future post). For the cascade poem, a poet takes each line from the first stanza of a poem and makes those the final lines of each stanza afterward. Beyond that, there are no additional rules for rhyming, meter, etc.

Here's what a cascade poem with a tercet would look like:
[ABC abA cdB efC]

A quatrain cascade would look so:
[ABCD abcA defB ghiC jklD]

And, of course, you can make this even more involved if you want.