Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the bob and wheel, an old school form that's often part of a longer poem.
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at nashers, which is a light verse form invented by Ogden Nash.
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the roundel, an English 11-line variant of the roundeau.
Learn how to write echo verse, a repetitive form, including guidelines for the form and a couple examples.
Learn how to write skeltonic verse, a fun poem with short lines, rhymes, rhythms, and alliterations. Get the guidelines and read an example poem here.
Learn how to write the curtal sonnet, an 11-line invention of Gerard Manley Hopkins, including guidelines for writing the poetic form and an example poem.
The chant poem is about as old as poetry itself. In fact, it may be the first form poetry took. Find guidelines and example poem here.