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Verse-Making Was Least of My Virtues
Verse-making was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair
Wealth that never yet was but might be--all that verse-making were
If the life would but lengthen to wish, let the mind be laid bare.
So I said, "To do little is bad, to do nothing is worse"--
And made verse.
Love-making,--how simple a matter! No depths to explore,
No heights in a life to ascend! No disheartening Before,
No affrighting Hereafter,--love now will be love ever more.
So I felt "To keep silence were folly:"--all language above,
I made love.
~~Robert Browning |
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The Cloned-Line Form
As an ongoing monthly series in the 2008 Poetry Newsletter, I would like to present another form of poetry employing accentual meter. This form will utilize repetends; by definition, a repetend is a word, phrase, line or longer element that is repeated, sometimes with variation, at irregular intervals in a poem.
My love for poetry began late in life. I penned my first poem at the age of fifty-two, six years ago. Maybe the talent or gift was there all along, laying dormant, waiting for the right time to appear. As a high school student in northern Texas, way back in the sixties, my favorite subject was English, but I didn't understand poetry at that time. Perhaps the life I have lived opened my poetic eyes.
I came to Writing.com for the first time in late 2004, departed, and returned one year later. Much of what I have learned of poetry has been through personal research and from fellow Writing.com poets; I consider myself a home-grown Writing.com poet, with a desire to continuously improve my poetry skills. The discovery of Bianca's Poetry Forms opened a door to a whole new realm of poetry. I now proudly display Bianca's Poetry Forms in my portfolio, at Bianca's request. One of my enjoyments is sharing with others the things I have learned and to challenge poets to go a bit beyond the zones of comfort.
As a commitment for this year, I decided to play around with developing a form of poetry. Though the form I came up with has components of other poetry forms; I believe the distinction is that I have combined the requirement of iambic pentameter, repetends, and inverted repetends, while adding the requirement of only four rhymes.
(Note: I have changed the meter requirement to pentameter (10 syllables) with iambic pentameter now being optional.)
The form is composed of four quatrains (four-line stanzas) and has a repetend that appears four times; twice the repetend is inverted. I have named it the Cloned-Line Form, since by definition, 'clone' means to closely resemble. The repetend appears in line 2 of each stanza.
Here is my Cloned-line Poem followed by a layout of the form.
Into Unknowns
When darkness looms - on sullen, dreary nights -
Ignite the way with beams of amber light.
With torch in hand, against all fear advance,
though dreadfully extends the vague expanse.
Ignore the taunts demonic voices spray;
With beams of amber light, ignite the way.
Though loathsome beasts abound, withstand their fright;
Be not distraught with wraith nor impish sprite.
Against unknowns obstructing destined plights,
Ignite the way with beams of amber light.
And look not here nor there but straight ahead;
Avoid the prophet Doom or be misled.
As pioneers of yore, embrace the fray;
With beams of amber light, ignite the way.
Be not as those who falter, taking flight;
Endure the night, achieve perceptive sight.
©2008 Larry Powers
larryp
In each stanza, line two repeats; however in stanzas two and four the repetend (repeated line) is inverted. In my poem, the first four syllables (2 iambs) become the last four syllables in line two of stanzas 2 and 4 and the last six syllables become the first six syllables in these lines. The division point for the inverted line may be made at any place in the repetend, as long as the iambic pentameter is maintained, if iambic meter is employed in the poem.
In stanzas one and two of my poem "Into Unknowns," I placed the repetend in colors of blue and green to clarify the inversion of the repetend line.
The rhyme scheme is couplet rhyming; the 'A' rhyme carries over into all ensuing stanzas and the 'C' rhyme repeats from stanza two to stanza four, as follows: (x =unstressed syllable, / = stressed syllable)
x/x/x/x/xA
x/x/x/x/xA (repetend)
x/x/x/x/xB
x/x/x/x/xB
x/x/x/x/xC
x/x/x/x/xC (repetend inverted)
x/x/x/x/xA
x/x/x/x/xA
x/x/x/x/xA
x/x/x/x/xA (repetend)
x/x/x/x/xD
x/x/x/x/xD
x/x/x/x/xC
x/x/x/x/xC (repetend inverted)
x/x/x/x/xA
x/x/x/x/xA
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If you desire to attempt this form, I invite you to post your poem in "Invalid Item" .
Poems created to the monthly form prompts and posted in the Poetry Scratch Pad will be highlighted in the following month's Poetry Newsletter.
Special Notice
In the February Poetry Newsletter Challenge, I presented the Revanche poetry form. Recently, I heard from the creator of this form, David Hirt. The poem I used to explain this form strayed from the original requirements of the form. I have made a correction in my Researching Poetry - see "Invalid Entry" . The poems written to the Revanche form as presented in March will still be acceptable, as I also enjoyed that form and have deemed it Revanche II, giving all credits for the form to David Hirt and describing the Original Revanche with David's orignal Revanche poem.
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Larry
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Spenserian Sonnets posted in the Poetry Scratch Pad
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Thanks to each one who responded to the last newsletter by posting Spenserian Sonnet poems in "Invalid Item"
White 
Informative and interesting. Thank you for all the work you put into this edition.
White
Thank you White. I do a great deal of research for each newsletter. I think it is important that newsletters be both informative and helpful to the Writing.com community.
charlesthec
I really enjoyed the background information and poetry of Edmund Spenser. Good newsletter!
Thanks Charles. I enjoyed researching the life and poetry of Edmund Spenser, as well as writing a poem to his sonnet form. Glad you enjoyed the newsletter.
raylangley
Excellent issue! Good Job and thank you!
Thank you Ray for the encouragement and support.
Katya the Poet 
I enjoyed this so much, and thanks for mentioning the Dew Drop!
Thank you for the encouragement Katya, and thank you for creating a Revanche poem. I hope the Dew Drop goes well for you.
The Poetry Newsletter editors appreciate you feedback.
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