Thai poetry.
• The Lilit is an alternating Raay and Kloang verse. Usually the Raay is used to describe the action and the Kloang is the dialogue.
The Lilit is:
○ stanzaic, alternating Raay couplets with Kloang quatrains.
○ syllabic, the couplets are 5 syllable lines and the quatrains are L1-L3 7 syllable lines and L4 is a 9 syllable line.
○ couplets composed with a chain, linking the lines of the couplet and linking the stanzas.
○ rhymed, composed with cross, interlaced and end rhyme .
x x x x a
a x x x b
b x x x c x d
x x x x d x c
x x x x d x e
x x x x c x x x e
e x x x f
f x x x g
g x x x h x i
x x x x i x h
x x x x i x j
x x x x h x x x j
Pasted from Poetry Magnum Opus, with thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on this fine PMO resource.
Chain: A series of verses or stanzas in which the last word of the verse or stanza is repeated as the first word of the next verse or stanza.
Cross rhyme: When the end word rhymes with a word in the middle of the next line
Interlaced rhyme: A word in the middle of one line rhymes with a word in the middle of another.
My Example
Form: Lilit
Nuance
Stop and take a look.
Look at what I’ve found.
“Found something, new you say?”
While it’s okay to view
the form that way, it’s old
in fact, which you can now behold.
Behold it’s Thailand.
Thailand’s ancient verse.
Verse once inscribed on walls
and in great halls described
is something called new now
what was transcribed– ignored somehow.
© Lawrencealot – January 29, 2015
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