Monotetra is developed by Michael Walker - > It is a one-stanza or more poem - > Each stanza contains four lines in monorhyme - > Each line is in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a total of eight syllables - > The last line contains two metrical feet,...
This style is created by Emily Romano. It consists of three verses of three lines each. The first lines have two syllables; the second lines have four syllables, and the third lines have two syllables. The rhyme scheme is a/b/a, c/d/c, e/f/e
This form is created by Lencio Dominic Rodrigues. It consists of two quatrains with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb, defe All the FIRST words of each verse should rhyme, but the first words of both stanzas must not rhyme. The end lines, however, must follow the rhyme...
This style is developed by Joseph Spence, Sr. and is all about delicious food. - > Write seven lines with thirty-three (33) syllables (7/5/7/5/5/3/1); - > Rhymed or unrhymed; - > Ends in exclamation point expressing the writer’s excitement about the...
Pleasing smell of the Earth, so naked and naïve. Tantalizing the olfactory nerves, Reassuring the onset of the rain. Intoxicating the poet who's Clouded with thoughts, Hallucinating all the nature lovers, Oh! Indeed a bliss it is and Rightly called the...
A tercet is a stanza of poetry with three lines; it can be a single-stanza poem or it can be a verse embedded in a larger poem. A tercet can have several rhyme schemes, or might not have any lines of poetry that rhyme at all. The poets use minimal language to convey...
A decima is a ten-line stanza of poetry, and the song form generally consists of forty-four lines (an introductory four-line stanza followed by four ten-line stanzas). It is also called "espinela" after its founder, Vicente Espinel (1550–1624), a Spanish writer and...
Janaku, the poetry style that has no rules regarding rhyme or syllable. It comprises of three lines. First line has one word, second line two and the third line has three words. Eg : Sun, The mystical Ball of fire. Read through the poem Forest under Poetry which is...
Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, a popular English novelist and humourist, Clerihew is written considering the following guidelines - It is four lines long. The rhyme scheme followed is A/A/B/B The first line of the first stanza ends with the name of a personality...