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(Originally posted on: 01-02-03 02:23:31 AM)
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I've noticed a lot of good writing being posted and a lot of forum people expressing the urge to do some writing. I've read a pretty good ways back in the Gallery, so forgive me for saying so, but some of the assignments you guys have been given by various teachers and classes have been pretty lame.
If you're up to it, I'd like anybody at all to take a stab at the following form of poetry. No rules except the rules of the form, which are:
Triolet:
an eight-line stanza having just two rhymes and repeating the first line as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth.
An example is W. E. Henley's "Easy is the Triolet"
side note ### There are zillions of triolets about writing triolets. Personally, I don't mind poems about the process of writing. I think it's cool when poets and writers can kick back and take a poke at themselves, rant at publishers or critics, etc. The only thing I ask is that it's done well. In case I haven't mentioned, there are zillions of triolets about writing, so I like when one comes along and knocks my socks off. (For the record, I think Henley's is sort of average and predictable, don't you think?) Still, it's a great example of a triolet with the alternating rhymes and the one fixed line that must be placed at intervals throughout the poem.
EASY is the Triolet,
If you really learn to make it!
Once a neat refrain you get,
Easy is the Triolet.
As you see!--I pay my debt
With another rhyme. Deuce take it,
Easy is the Triolet,
If you really learn to make it!
William Ernest Henley
Go ahead and move this to the stupid thread if it's just to heinous to live, but otherwise I think it would be cool to see you all challenge yourselves to this. By the way, it's my policy everywhere to not participate in my own contests.
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-Evelyn Waugh
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