Poetry in Motion Poems

Trois-par-Huit

Dreaming Poetry

Poet dreams:
writing form poem scenes;
rhyming metaphors and similes;

counting syllables in iambic families;
rhythms flow between alternate realities;

line phasing sentences to create
and perfect stanzas make.
The dream state.

Line count: 8
Form: Trois-par-Huit created by Lorraine M. Kanter. This poem is composed of eight lines divided into three stanzas with these possible line combinations 3/3/2 and 3/2/3. The rhyme scheme is always A/A/B/B/B/C/C/C no matter how the poet divided the lines, with a syllable count of 3,6,9,12,12,9,6,3 syllables. The last line summarizes the poem’s meaning. Center this poem.