Sunday 3 March 2013

Terzanelle for the Disinterested

What can I say of Terzanelle?  It's super fun!  I really enjoyed the repeated lines, lack of need for consistent metre and playing with multisyllabic rhyme (my choice).  The scheme is as follows: ABA, bCB, cDC, dED, eFE, fAFA or fFAA, with capitalized letters indicating repeated lines and the first and third lines of the first triplet being repeated in the last quatrain.  This is a form I will be using again.


Photo Origin Unknown- Sometimes you wish
Spiderman would get you out of some
commitments you never should have made,
like an expert panelist gig.
Expert Panelist


You aggravate your only pundit. A
Who am I to argue? B
I think I might be redundant. A

The course is only par two. b
Your tongue still swings in your dusty trap. C
Who am I to argue? B

Ratlike, your mouth voices your crusty crap. c
My head nods and sways. D
Your tongue still swings in your dusty trap. C

No more time for pretended grace. d
If I do not get up soon I will fall asleep. E
My head nods and sways. D

I feign an exciting appointment to keep. e
You will not let me talk. F
If I do not get up soon I will fall asleep. E

All I can do is quietly gawk. f
You aggravate your only pundit. A
You will not let me talk. F
I think I might be redundant. A

Tommorow... another day, another form.

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