Frayed Feisty Threads - Book IV

Triplets and Couplets 11/24/2015

Triple Spin

Spiraling long entwining cables cleave
To lofty white and royal hand-combed yarn;
Spun with a practiced hand yields fabric's weave.

Structure ▼

Syllables Per Line:10 10 10
Total # Syllables:30
Total # Lines:3
Total # Words:20

Soft lofty white and royal hand-combed yarn,
Spun with a practiced hand yields fabric's weave
Where spiraling entwining cables cleave.

Structure ▼

Syllables Per Line:10 10 10
Total # Syllables:30
Total # Lines:3
Total # Words:20

11/24/2015
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Form ▼

Tercet or triplet: Three lines with rhyme scheme of aaa or aba; rhyme-linked triplets are also called terza rima, according to Mayes, pg. 344. Mayes, Frances. 1994. "Traditional and Open Forms." In The Discovery of Poetry, by Frances Mayes, edited by Ted Buchholz. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace College Punlishers.

Couplets Run Amok

My lady my love wore pajamas all day
Her lover was glad to tear them away!

Syllables

Syllables Per Line:11 10

A sunny day deep in November is rare;
One gunshot splits the air- the turkey- oh dear!

Syllables

Syllables Per Line:11 11

I heard a songbird singing high in the barren tree;
Piercing notes melodic sparked sweet memory of thee.

Syllables

Syllables Per Line: 13 13

There once was a muse who espoused creativity;
Tho' laughingly inspired words lacking civility.

Syllables

Syllables Per Line: 13 13

11/23/2015
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Form Information ▼

Couplet: Two lines identified often of long uninterrupted verse. Uses an aa rhyme style.
         Heroic Couplet:Rhymed iambic pentameter.

Reference
Kinzie, Mary. 1999. A Poet's Guide to Poetry. First. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago