Poetry Forms

Trois-par-Huit

I was researching another form when I ran into this one. The Trois-par-Huit was developed by Lorraine M. Kanter. It is in a way an adaption of the French Huitain, but do not underestimate the form - it is more difficult than it looks at first sight.

The guidelines for this form:

The poem contains out of three stanzas.
          Two combinations are possible:3/3/2 lines and 3/2/3 lines according to the guidelines found.
The poem has eight lines in total
The poem has a rhyme scheme
          A/A/B/B/B/C/C/C No matter how the stanzas are divided, the rhyme scheme stays the same.
The poem has a syllable count
          3,6,9,12,12,9,6,3 syllables.
The last line summarizes the meaning of the poem.
The poem needs to be centered!!!


My example:

Emptiness of the soul

Brain breakers
think! puzzled; mind shakers
there must be a key; it's hard to find

to solve this tough puzzle and satisfy my mind
word for word, layers of hidden rhymes I unwind.

Gone is the magic, like a black hole
my brain needs a new goal...
Soothe my soul!

Poem © Bianca 10-01-2006
Source:http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/troisparhuit.html


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