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Couplet Poetry Forms
This month I know several people who are either getting married or got engaged—in fact, two in one day! First my dear friend’s daughter got engaged to her girlfriend and then my cousin proposed to his girlfriend. June is for couples, and today this newsletter will follow that and be about couplets.
Couplets are two lines that work together in a poem, sometimes grouped as stanzas. Occasionally they are unrhymed, but usually they rhyme. There are several poetry forms that are based on couplets.
Converse in Couplets
The first form was invented by John Henson. It’s a poem that represents a conversation.
MUST HAVES
--Meter: syllabic-11 syllables per line.
--Couplets rhyme. Rhyme scheme: aa, bb, cc, and so on.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic.
--Line count: as many as you want, but should be an even number since you’re using couplets.
--Number of stanzas.
Cywydd Deuair Fyrion
One of the variations of the Welsh Cywydd forms.
MUST HAVES
--Couplets.
--Meter: Syllabic-4 syllables per line.
--Rhyme scheme: aa, bb, cc. dd, and so on.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic.
--Number of stanzas is up to you.
Qasida
Arabic form made up of rhyming couplets (aa). May be as long as 100 couplets.
MUST HAVES
--Rhyme: the couplets must rhyme. Rhyme scheme is aa only (monorhyme).
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic.
--Number of stanzas.
--Meter.
SOURCE NOTES:
Drury, John. the po.e.try dic.tion.ar.y. 2nd edition. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2006. Print.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
Williams, Miller (1986). Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
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