 Poetry: October 23, 2019 Issue [#9823] |
This week: Challenge Yourself Part 2 Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."
Gustave Flaubert
"Poetry is the step beyond, which we were about to take, but were not certain of the way."
Carleton Noyes
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Challenge Yourself
I wrote a poetry newsletter article on challenging yourself about three years ago. In this article, I focused mainly on contests. This time I’m going to look at a bit of WHY and a few HOWs and then throw a challenging poetry form at you.
Why Challenge Yourself?
Here’s what challenging yourself can do:
--Increase confidence
--Encourage growth
--Increase knowledge
--Encourage goal setting
--Increase skills
How Can I Challenge Myself?
Within Poetry:
--PAD (Poem A Day). You can choose to participate for any length of time. Try for a month (like NaPoWriMo), and if you like it try for longer. Try for a year, try from today on!
--Learn a new poetry technique. Explore different poetry tools and try them!
--Practice a challenging technique. Personally, I find meter a challenge. This would be my choice of technique to practice.
--A multitude of ways can be found on WDC, but that goes without saying.
Outside of Poetry:
--NaNoWriMo. This is National Novel Writing Month. It's where you take the challenge of writing a novel within one month.
--Inktober: This is a drawing challenge where you sketch with pen and ink every day for the month of October.
--StoryADay. This is a challenge to write a short story a day.
Challenging Poetry Form: Terzanelle
(Taken and adapted from a 2007 article I wrote on 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.
MUST HAVES
--Line count: Nineteen.
--Number of stanzas: Six.
--Rhyme:
Terzanelle rhyme and repetition 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!
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic
--Meter: Syllabic—just make sure each line has a consistent syllable count.
SOURCE NOTES:
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
Williams, Miller (1986). Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
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Comment: Teddy Verse is a form I've long thought would be fun to give a try but never got around to it. Your newsletter plus my grandson's US history project worked together for my inspiration. One note: the Alexandrine line is in French 12 syllables broken into hemistichs by caesura, in English it's usually iambic hexameter, not pentameter which is broken by caesura into hemistichs.
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