Poetry Prompt 4 for Tale-A-Thlon 2025- Ottava Rima ~Written by Giovanni Boccaccio ~”Ottava Rima” literally translates to “eighth rhyme” in Italian ~Follows a strict ABABABCC rhyme scheme ~The final couplet provides a summarizing, emphatic, or witty conclusion to the stanza’s
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Poetry Prompt 3 for Tale-A-Thlon 2025 is a Than Bauk style. It is – ~A Burmese form ~A clever or witty poem ~Three lines, but not necessarily ~Four syllables per line ~The final syllable of the first line rhymes with
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Poetry Prompt 2 for Tale-A-Thlon 2025 – The Nashers Named after Ogden Nash, the Nashers are rhyming couplets, mostly comical. This poem has 2 rhyming couplets (4 lines). Little Tina so obsessed with her dog, Brown Made it sleep on
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Prompt 1- This poem is of the style Lai for Tale-A-Thlon 2025 The Lai is a French form. It’s a nine-line poem or stanza that uses an “a” and “b” rhyme following this pattern: aabaabaab. The lines with an “a”
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“Sia, don’t go off too far,” the mother tusker, Meghali, trumpeted out to her four-month-old daughter. Meghali was leading the herd into Tiruchi, a village hamlet established in the Tosi forest area by the fishing folk, who were preparing their
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Seguidilla It’s a seven-line stanza with a specific rhyme scheme and rhythm, often used in Spanish folk songs. Guidelines: 7-line poem Syllable count: 7-5-7-5-5-7-5 per line One assonance rhyme between lines 2 and 4; another one between lines 5 and
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Treochair It’s an Irish form that employs an interesting syllable count with rhymes and alliteration. Guidelines: Treochair employs a lot of alliteration Variable number of tercets (or three-line stanzas) Three syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and
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Hir a Thoddaid This six-line form is like other Welsh forms in regards to a slight variation in line length and some complexity in the rhyme scheme. Guidelines: 1— xxxxxxxxa 2— xxxxxxxxa 3— xxxxxxxxa 4— xxxxxxxxa 5— xxxxxxxbxx 6— xxbxxxxxa
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Bob and Wheel Quintain (or five-line) stanza poem Rhyme scheme of ababa First line has 2-3 syllables Lines 2-5 have six syllables per line Word to use: swing Stanza: one Poem: I swing over yellows and greens sigh of relief I bring when
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This poem is written for Penmancy’s Penmuse contest. It is a Kwansaba Invented by Eugene B. Redmond in 1995, this form was inspired by the seven-day holiday of Kwanzaa, including its seven principles of unity, self-determination, collective work, cooperative economics,
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