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Cursed Terza Rima

Terza Rima is a poetry form that is new to me, and it was harder than I thought!

Cursed Terza Rima

The words, they swim before my eyes.
I can’t imagine what to do.
This poem will lead to my demise.

Ta Tum, tum ta, the beat won’t do.
Rhyme scheme and meter intertwine
Whoops! That line, I’ll have to review

I fixed it now, I think its fine.
Oh no! Oh no! What’s happening?
The words, they move, they recombine.

Edit, undo- What’s opening?
Oh good grief now where did it go?
Found it, this is too challenging.

This new poetry form- my foe
I think this contest I’ll forego.

Terza rima is poetry written in three-line stanzas (or “tercets”) linked by end-rhymes patterned aba, bcb, cdc, ded, efe, etc. There is no specified number of stanzas in the form, but poems written in terza rima usually end with a single line or a couplet rhyming with the middle line of the last tercet.

Terza rima is typically written in an iambic line, and in English, most often in iambic pentameter. If another line length is chosen, such as tetrameter, the lines should be of the same length. There are no limits to the number of lines a poem composed in terza rima may have.

July 27, 2011
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