GALLOPING DENTURN is a poetry form invented by Dennis William Turner, writing on All Poetry as Dennisturner19.
It is comprised of two DACTYLIC tetrameter quatrains stating a point of view.
This is followed by a stand-alone one, two or three syllable word or phrase. For example: but – unless – but then – although – until, – however etc., Providing the TURN.
The concluding two quatrains, in ANAPESTIC tetrameter, make the argument, (emphasised by the change of metre.)
Turner’s Example
Form: Galloping Denturn
Why Bother?
Sometimes, my targets are scarcely attainable; All that I try to do seems to fall short, Efforts invested are hardly sustainable, Work and commitment can all come to nought. Labour seems pointless with goals unachievable. Destined for failure, why should I still try? Thoughts of success can be quite inconceivable. “Try, try again,” they say. I just say, “Why?”
Although…
There’s a lot to be said for attempting your best And for pushing and striving that little bit more And remaining committed when put to the test And to put in more effort than ever before. If I DON’T try at all, then I’m doomed from the start And it’s not a nice thing to be doomed, I confess, So all negative thoughts should be set well apart And I’ll give it the best that I can — nothing less!
Ardently I do eschew taking medicine arguing strongly against such reliance. Eating correctly provides all my lecithin, AND all the nutrients known now to science. Certainly sponsors will vouch with some clarity championing benefits brand names provide. Taking their claims as the truth would be charity Knowing beforehand how many have lied.
However,
With my tendency shown to perhaps skip some meals, to respond to the TV’s promoting fast food, and to pay much attention to five dollar deals well, I might then deduce that my diet’s no good. And I do take my Bayer’s prescribed for my heart, and some Anacin, rarely, without too much fuss since my doc’ says take pills — well then maybe I’ll start I’m not stupid, you know, just a growing old cuss.
Diabolo is a poetry form invented by Dennis William Turner, writing on All Poetry as Dennisturner19.
His specifications and an example:
A poem of two, six-line, iambic stanzas.
Each stanza:
Lines 1,2,4 and 5, iambic tetrameter with rhymes at syllables 6 and 8.
Lines 3 and 6, iambic Dimeter with rhymes at syllables 2 and 4.
Rhyme scheme:
(a,b,)(a,b,)(c,d,)(e,f,)(e,f,)(c,d, )
(g,h,)(g,h,)(i,j,)(k,l,)(k,l,)(i,j, )
Turner’s Example
Form: Diabolo
Utopia
Man’s instinct was to stay alive; He fought so that he may survive And procreate, But time for fighting should be done And lasting friendships could be won. A noble state.
All people should say “No” before Their leaders choose to go to war. The shame should cease. To kill is such a frightful sin; We must all do the right thing in The name of peace.
I hate him cuz he’s not like me, and we’re a special lot, you see. we’re white and loud. As white privilege (without a need, our culture’s flaw, no doubt, indeed.) A rightful crowd!
To bully people, black and brown we threaten them and back them down; our tool is fear. Our president equivocates; thinks screaming is just give and take – so cool and clear!
DENTURN is a poetry form invented by Dennis William Turner, writing on All Poetry as Dennisturner19.
Stanzaic: 2 stanzas of iambic tetrameter
2 stanzas of trochaic tetrameter
Rhyme pattern: poet’s option.
It is comprised of two IAMBIC, tetrameter quatrains stating a point of view.
This is followed by a stand-alone one, two or three syllable word or phrase. For example: but – unless – but then – although – until, – however etc., Providing the TURN.
The concluding two quatrains, in TROCHAIC metre, make the argument, (emphasised by the change of metre.)
SPECIAL NOTE: If two syllables are used at the TURN, then the following line should have ANACRUSIS in order to make the seamless transition between metres.
an·a·cru·sis (ăn′ə-kro͞o′sĭs) n. One or more unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line of verse, before the reckoning of the normal meter begins.From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/anacrusis
Turner’s Examples
Form: Denturn
Go For It
I’m in a quandary, on the spot: Now, should I exercise or not? I’d much prefer to just relax Instead of pounding running tracks. The gym is not the place for me; The sofa is the place to be! I’d rather browse the Internet Than run a round and smell of sweat,
Although,
It’s true that heart disease is stealthy, Even when you feel quite healthy. Maybe running at the double COULD be worth a little trouble. My excess will take some shifting, Maybe I could try weight lifting? This great book will show me how, Here’s my chance; I’ll start right now.
The puppies chew on furniture, and eat up books I’ve out on loan, which now require expenditure and thus become my very own. They chew things just to hear them crunch and chewed up paper lines our hall, They miss the training pads a bunch and won’t all come each time I call,
and yet,
I don’t believe I’ll give them up; Can’t release a single pup They have taken up my heart – Dollars aren’t just cause to part! All of them should outlive me. (Vets and food and toys aren’t free), Joy and love and laughter reign – Puppies make me young again!
Although your piece was technically correct, the use of catalectic lines in the Trochaic section gives it the ‘feel’ of acephalous iambic. The real essence of the Trochaic section is the double-syllable end rhyme. It is this that gives the strong contrast with the first section, (along with the stressed syllable to start the line of course.) I know that I have used a catalectic ending for my final rhyme, but that was deliberate in order to finish with a stressed syllable for emphasis as in the punchline of a joke. In fact, I’ve used the same ploy on other Denturns that I have written. I much prefer the strict tempo approach in order to get the full feeling of contrast. My opinion. What do you think?
WHAT I THINK. Dennis is spot on! Here is my revised poem.
Puppies (Revised)
The puppies chew on furniture, and eat up books I’ve out on loan, which now require expenditure and thus become my very own. They chew things just to hear them crunch and chewed up paper lines our hall, They miss the training pads a bunch and won’t all come each time I call,
and yet,
I don’t believe their ever leavin’ Can’t release one puppy even. They own me now; I’m enchanted. Planned to sell but I’ve recanted. They’ll outlive me, so I reckon We’ll share love ’til angels beckon. Joy and love and laughter reign – Puppies make me young again!
This is a form invented by Lisa Morris, aka Streambed on Allpoetry.
Streambed is so grounded in sonnetry, that it spills over into most everything she writes, but in this case she has decided to become mischievous and play in the muddied waters of Roundeaus and Rondels as well. The SonnetyRondel might better be described as a SonnetyRondeau because this form uses the rentrement or first phrase of L1 as a refrain rather than the full line as in the Rondel.
Stanzaic: Three quatrains
Metric: Iambic pentameter and di-meter
Rhyme Scheme: abaB baaB abaB|
Refrained
Streambed’s Example
SonnetyRondel
My Heart is True
My heart is true and ever will be so; it murmurs love in words, which always new pour from this ink, and catch you in their flow; my heart is true.
I know the richness and the truths of you and listen to your sighs when they ache low and all your desert’s storming sandy blow. My heart is true.
The years to come will ease the pain you know with tenderness, which took deep root and grew while beauty then, we’ll cultivate and sow; my heart is true.
This is a form invented by Lisa Morris , aka Streambed on Allpoetry.
It is a 32 line poem made up of four 8 line stanzas.
Each stanza consists of 5 iambic tetrameter lines, and 3 iambic trimeter lines
The Rhyme pattern for each stanza is ababccba (with independent rhyme)
Meter: Lines 2,4, and 7 are iambic trimeter, the rest are iambic tetrameter.
The form map is:
8 A
6 B
8 A
6 B
8 C
8 C
6 B
8 A
Streambed’s Introduction:
I believe this is a new form; if you know of it from somewhere else, please give me a link and I will include the information. It is named after the poem I created it for: “The Gemstone” below.
Streambed’s Example
Form: Gemstone
The Gemstone
She kept a gemstone hid away, once given, at a ball, because she feared her mother’s say; she’d force the man to call. She hid it in her silks and floss beneath the chest’s enameled gloss, and underneath it all the gemstone there in splendor lay.
She took it out when nights were still and held it to her breast, which surely was the man’s first will when they had kissed, caressed. It felt so cool against her skin; she wished for his strong eyes again and then she was distressed and paced before her window sill.
He said he’d claim her as his bride before the year was out, and on this word she had relied, but now she had her doubts. The heiress of a large estate with many, many hearts in wait and many gifts to tout was seen with him, out on a ride.
She laid her trust down in the drawer; the facets, too, were there, and in her mind, she heard the roar of dancing in his care. That night might be all that they had, and if it was, her heart was glad the gem he chose to share; for it too sparked within its core.
I chose to honor womankind as Arthur said we must. They may be common or refined but chivalry they trust. They often can and will beguile; they were designed to make men smile. They promise more than lust; they nurture using heart and mind.
For man there ought to be one maid eclipsing all the rest and she need never be afraid when he’s put to the test. I’m a man who loves them all, the thin, the fat, the short and tall; mankind is so well blessed with diverse beauty, so arrayed.
A young man is not always smart when wooing just for sport. He’ll take a trollop or a tart and happily consort. No harm is done to either one if both agree it’s just for fun. Take care! Do not distort – nor trifle with another’s heart.
If chivalry can take control and lead you through your life you’ll play a noble happy role completely free of strife. You’ll grace the days of maidens fair creating jealously nowhere; you’ll please your chosen wife thereby making two lives whole.
Note the use of the acephalous (headless) foot in the final line. Although a volta is not mandated, line 7 seems the proper place should you choose to employ a turn.
The Symetrelle is a form created by Julie Moeller Writing on Allpoetry com as Bluejewel. She describes it thus:
It begins and ends with a single subject line that is 7 syllables.
It has ‘a hat and boots’, mono-rhymed couplets that lead you into and out of the subject with a 9 syllable count.
At the heart of it is a mono-rhymed 4 line quatrain with an 11 syllable count.
Bluejewel’s Example
Form: Symetrelle
Serenity
I don’t have to be perfect
From tragedy, it became my goal Trying to untangle guilt from soul
It is exhausting to keep toeing that line Always giving more, at everything outshine Perhaps time expectations to realign Embracing forgiveness of self is divine
The sun rests too, as part of its role Soothing peace after a day of toll
Invite a moment’s meditation, a time for stress to take vacation
Set aside just briefly all that so compels, the tasks upon which your mind so often dwells, absorb solace from the sight, the sounds, the smells; thrive in noting all the tension this dispels.
When cleared of complex cogitation your mind provides imagination:
This is a form created by Mary Lou Healy, writing as Mlou on Allpoetry.com.
The Shrinking Verse is:
Stanzaic: It consists of three or more stanzas of diminishing length written in common meter, followed by a single rhyming iambic tetrameter couplet. Usually the stanza preceding the couplet is four lines in length.
Metric: It is written in common meter (alternating lines 0f iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.)
Rhyme: Each stanza has its own alternating two rhymes and the final couplet rhymes aa.
Volta: The final couplet provides a turn, a twist, or a summary of the poem.
Mlou’s Example
Form: Shrinking Stanza
The Sacrifice
Dark forces held the earth in thrall and morning did succumb. In strict command, night covered all and beat a muted drum. But Blanche, the maid of light, did call her white doves swift to come, to sweep away the fearsome pall and new day’s guitar, strum.
They gathered all the darkness in, absorbed it, one by one, until day’s magic could begin to summon forth the sun. Blanche and her flock will always win though task is never done.
The price they pay to rescue day is burdensome and sad; to keep the clouded night at bay, they’re e’er in blackness clad.
Oh, white and black, those opposites on which time’s glass of hours sits!
The universe in iambs beat except when more excited and then there may be many feet that spring up uninvited. When two electrons chance to meet their meeting is high-lighted with touches that are short and sweet that leave mere men delighted.
God particles and nutrinos are hypothecated; entanglement that comes and goes with distance unrelated are guesses because no one knows (’til after they’re cremated.)
But we can listen to the clatter and some may then conclude that changing states of God’s matter ought be left to that dude.
Iambs will work, ‘cept when they won’t. Should we all care? Because I don’t.
The Rhyming Wave is a poetry form created by Katharine L. Sparrow, American writer and poet who writes on Allpoetry.com.
The Rhyming Wave is:
Stanzaic: Consisting of 2 or more quatrains plus an ending couplet.
Metric: Lines 1 through 3 are iambic tetrameter and
line 4 is iambic trimeter.
Refrained: Syllables 6 & 7 of line one are repeated as syllables 2 thru 7 and syllable 8 is the same in both lines and syllables 1 & 2 are of line 3 are repeated in line 4
Refrain: The ending couplet is the first and the last line of the previous stanzas.
NOTE: The author is amenable to having poets substitute rhyming as well as identical syllables. I have done so in my example poem.
Rhymed: Rhyme scheme Aaab BBbc CCd AD, where the capital letters represent refrain words or refrain lines.
Here is the author’s own explanation. At the end I have included a visual template that may help some.
The Rhyming Wave is a form of my own invention. The instructions seem complicated, but once you start writing it, you will get it pretty quickly. A Rhyming Wave is so named because words repeat themselves, similar to waves lapping over and over again on the shore. A Rhyming Wave has at least 2 verses and an ending couplet. Each verse is four lines with the first three written in iambic tetrameter (4 “feet” of 2 syllables each) and the fourth line three feet, or six syllables. The ending couplet will be the first and last lines of the poem repeated. To write a Rhyming Wave you must know how to write in iambic meter. This is the da-DUM, da-DUM rhythm. If you don’t know how to do this, your Rhyming Wave may not come out sounding as it should. As with all iambic metered poems, it does not have to be PERFECT, but it should sound melodious to the ear.
– First line: 4 iambic feet (8 syllables)
She dwells among the foamy swells,
– Second line : syllables 6 and 7 of line one are repeated as syllables 2 through 7 (three times) and syllable 8 is also repeated as syllable 8.
the foamy, foamy, foamy swells–
– Third line: 4 iambic feet (8 syllables) last syllable rhymes with last syllable of lines one and two
Beneath the cresting waves she dwells,
– Fourth line: first 2 to 3 syllables (whichever fits) of line three are repeated/ six syllables only
beneath the ocean’s roll.
Verses 2 through 4, same pattern – first line of each verse rhymes with last line of previous verse:
Her song floats from a sandy shoal
a sandy, sandy, sandy shoal–
her voice that creeps into the soul,
her voice, a crooning trill.
And over all a misty chill
a misty, misty, misty chill–
she’ll sing again, it’s sure she will,
she’ll sing her haunting tune.
Her humming soothes the silver moon,
the silver, silver, silver moon,
where stars will span the ocean soon–
where stars will hear her song.
Ending couplet, first and last lines of the poem:
She dwells among the foamy swells,
where stars will hear her song.
The poem must have at least 2 verses, but there is no limit to the number of verses
Sparrow’s Examples
Form: Rhyming Wave
Mermaid’s Song
She dwells among the foamy swells, the foamy, foamy, foamy swells– beneath the cresting waves she dwells, beneath the ocean’s roll.
Her song floats from a sandy shoal a sandy, sandy, sandy shoal– her voice that creeps into the soul, her voice, a crooning trill.
And over all a misty chill a misty, misty, misty chill– she’ll sing again, it’s sure she will, she’ll sing her haunting tune.
Her humming soothes the silver moon, the silver, silver, silver moon, where stars will span the ocean soon– where stars will hear her song.
She dwells among the foamy swells where stars will hear her song.
Rose Covered
A cottage in the shady wood, the shady, shady, shady wood– amid soft, leafy arms it stood amid the woodland trees.
Perfume hung on the hazy breeze the hazy, hazy, hazy breeze where roses opened for the bees where roses blossomed red.
The roses climbed and gently spread, and gently, gently, gently spread– they made the walls a flower bed, they made the cottage sweet.
A respite in the steamy heat, the steamy, steamy, steamy heat– a cool and comfortable retreat a cool and quiet place.
A cottage in the shady wood, a cool and quiet place.
This is a form created by Daniel Lake, writing on Allpoetry.com. I have provisionally named it the Lakelet, which is:
Stanzaic: Consisting of 3 or more sestets.
Metric: Each stanza consisting of five lines of iambic tetrameter and one line of iambic trimeter.
Rhyme scheme: abcccb
Lake’s Example
Form: Lakelet
If I Could Write
If I could write the perfect words, Contained within the perfect line That sets your mind to think again, Embraced by love, encased by pain, Enrapturing it’s sweet refrain, So buried in its rhyme.
If I could write exquisite form, That takes your breath and stills your heart, To make you read and read once more Each tiny vowel that you explore, That you’d remember evermore; A wondrous work of art…
But I am just a simple man Who writes of love, or mystic birds, Of summers sweet or winters snow Or war and peace, or skies that glow, Who strives to gain that high plateau: If I could write those words…
Although we both said that we’d call and promised that we’d keep in touch as routine fills our daily life me with, and you without a wife, we’ve settled down, and absent strife we haven’t called that much.
If distance played a lesser role we’d meet each other every day to stimulate and satisfy and obfuscate and edify and simply bull-shit guy to guy to pass the time away.
Our needs are handled where we are and habits mostly seem worthwhile and while a call is not a chore it’s something both of us ignore though each of us should do it more because it makes us smile.
Please take this gift to give you hope and then, in walking, you will cope without that weight hung on life’s rope. You are not on your path alone, there’s two of us on this stroll home, towards that light which beckons us amongst those bright stars, just because it’s where our spirits choose to hide when human needs have leaked inside our solid selves of blood and bone. There’s two of us on this stroll home.
Please take this gift to give you peace a languid smile, a soft release so trauma, on your path, will cease. We do not walk this way with dark, there is a ray…a lasting spark– a warm embrace, a lazy kiss a reason why we walk like this… as fallen few and guiding lights we bring lost “feel” on deepest nights and though we leave no sign or mark there is a ray…a lasting spark.
Please do not walk without me near do not begin this road with fear for to true selves we must adhere as life clings on to our firm feet, we must go on, our goals complete. Raze brambles from our disarray remove the stains that just can’t stay. and if you find yourself alone then don’t fret dear, I’m coming home… this world shall not, us both, defeat we must go on, our goals complete.
My Example
Form: LaCalma
No Village Needed
The kids have gone, they’ve left the nest and now, we thought, we’ve time to rest that is so wrong; you might have guessed. The kids move back, the grandkids too – like me, they want to be near you. As grandpa now I have my fun – the pampering has just begun. The parents change the diapers now (but grandpa still remembers how) They like your cooking, that is true – like me, they want to be near you.
Economy these days does suck, so with parents some kids are stuck for grandkids though that is good luck. They get to live a life that’s swell Gramps chose his wife so very well. Papa is constant source of fun but Grandma is the careful one. She keeps their enegy constrained when grandpa acts like he’s untrained; he knows she will, and you can tell, Gramps chose his wife so very well.
When a step-niece who grew up wild became involved and had a child though there were tears, still Grandma smiled. Rescuing people was her way and Grandma does that to this day. Extended families grow unbid from thoughtless things teenagers did yet somehow someone up above assures the unbid will find love. Dispensing love is just her way and Grandma does that to this day.
At the time I composed this poem, and template, the form had not yet been named. Since I had to call it something for filing purposes, I called it the Lamarkable, I have since found that Laura named it LaCalma.
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