 Poetry: December 27, 2006 Issue [#1458] |
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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)
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Get ready to yell (and pull your hair out) – It’s the Terzanelle
The French form, Terzanelle, is the love child of the Italian Terza Rima, and the French Villanelle.
The Terzanelle’s dad, Terza Rima, thought by many to have been invented by Dante, is more a rhyme scheme (of interlocking three-line stanzas or tercets, if you want to get fancy) than a poetry form, but has been confused as a form so much that anyone who used to get upset over this error has probably given up by now. The middle line of the Terza Rima rhymes with 1st and 3rd line of the next stanza – just as it does in the Terzanelle. The meter and length are optional – just as it is in the Terzanelle and the closing stanza can be one line, two lines or a triplet but it must carry out the rhyme scheme.
Terzanelle’s mom, the Villanelle, has nineteen lines consisting of five tercets and a quatrain – just like its child, Terzanelle. Then lines one and three are repeated as lines eighteen and nineteen.
So the Terzanelle, a fixed form like his mom, is nineteen-lines and may have any syllabic length as long as it is the same for each line of the poem. So if you start with five syllables, All nineteen lines must have five syllables each. The Terzanelle consists of six stanzas forming five triplets and a quatrain; also like his mom, but you get two choices in rhyme scheme for the quatrain.
Are you confused yet? I thought the Pantoum and Villanelle were hard until I did several of them. I have to believe that, like the game of cribbage or pinochle, the Terzanelle will be easy to master, once you play around with it a while.
Terzanelle schematic:
[*KEY*
r = an entire line that will get repeated
r2 = second line with same rhyme (not a repeat of the line – only that line’s rhyme) that will be repeated.
repeated = where the r line is placed
letters indicate the rhyme scheme]
A r
B r
A r2
B
C r
B r repeated
C
D r
C r repeated
D
E r
D r repeated
E
F r
E r repeated
F
A r repeated
F r repeated
A r2 repeated
OR (option 2 – which is closer to the Villanelle)
F
F r repeated
A r repeated
A r2 repeated
My own silly example (using the option 2 quatrain):
Mustard, Mayo and Ketchup’s Last Stand
Can you?
I can.
Me, too!
The plan -
to flee?
I can.
We three
must try
to flee!
We fly?
Can’t fail,
must try!
Don’t wail,
my friend,
can’t fail!
Not end -
Defend!
Can you?
Me, too!
For some further study of the Terzanelle:
http://www.ourkarnataka.com/Poetry/aparna_terzanelle.htm
In the end, the best way to conquer this form is by practicing it over and over.
NOTE: Coming soon is a multi-part series on "isms" and how they are linked to poetry and poets. So, send in any questions you might want addressed.
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If so, send it through the feedback section at the bottom of this newsletter OR click the little envelope next to my name Red Writing Hood <3 and send it through email.
More "challenge" takers:
Submitted By: jd anderson 
Submitted Comment:
Lady, with sweet lips and soft hands,
Fallen, I have, for your love
Keep me close to your heart, please.
I can't take it when you leave.
Love, I have found with you here,
On this dark December's eve.
I look up toward the full moon,
While I wait for your return.
Time, alone passes so slow,
My hammock sways on the stern.
Empty, my boat on the bay,
I yearn to caress your face
Kissing that warm smile is bliss.
Who knew I could feel like this.
Submitted By: Maribel is a Dancing Poet
Submitted (by email) Comment:
HE FOUND LOVE
Lovely lady
With the luscious smile
Almost walked away forever
Without a word to say
Don’t slip away, don't go away,
Stay with me, let’s talk for a while.”
His heart fell onto hers
Before that dark December day.
He poured out his feelings to her
That night, among the star-crowded sky
In a boat by the bay, he acted out his love
before she whispered…“Let’s give it a try”.
The two sailed that evening arms closed-tight
Waking up in the middle of the star studded twilight.
Submitted By: ectoplasm
Submitted (by email) Comment:
(Comment on the weak words challenge) Great exercise for a writers' workshop. Thanks!
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