The following description is reposted with permission from The Poets Garret, with thanks to Sarah Rayburn.
Novelinee
Created by Sarah Rayburn, the novelinee is a 9 line stanza derived from the Spenserian stanza but written in iambic pentameter or decasyllabic lines. If used as part of a sequence a variation of the closing line should be used as lead line for the next stanza. In the case of a closed novelinee the last stanza would end with a variation of the first line of the first stanza.
Stanza Rhyme Scheme: a. b. a. b. c. d. c..d. d.
Betrayal of Trust
From mists of Avalon she came in white supernova who split my heart in two and left untouched silence in endless night no skyward star to guide my passage through. While drinking wine I gave my love away for whispered promises given out of lust, believing hearts could breathe again today my dreams now lie amid unwanted dust, my heart shattered by betrayals of trust.
Sarah Rayburn
Novelinee Sequence
Sweet nightingale, unparalleled beauty, my worldly thoughts will drown in idle words, if I did not reflect the love I see, and deny love is nought but food for birds. I dream my arm is loosely round your waist, so I shall hear divinity in your song, and dream upon your eyes with loving haste, to sip from lips of wine where I belong and trust the sweetest breath will keep us strong.
With trust the sweetest breath to keep us strong, my jewel of love to whom I grant my heart, with words and smiles for days that seem so long, so fate has cast the miles to keep apart. In crystal vagaries we’re hand in hand, whilst waterfalls cascade a rhythmic beat, as when we kissed upon the golden sand, below the rugged crags in love’s retreat, our passion found in nature’s dancing feet.
When passion’s found in nature’s dancing feet, above the greenest valleys, smile Black hills, with fragrant flowers dazzling eyes shall meet, where dragonflies commingle by the rills. Your heart in truth a loving paradise, where feelings flow and openly confess, in daring glances tempting looks of ice, for you, my love, are more than words express, I can’t resist your spell of loveliness.
Sarah Rayburn
Motherland ~~~ Closed Novelinee
Across the bay where beauty waits for me, beneath the sun-kissed mountain waterfalls, enchanting eyes shall tame the wild and free, my heart is bound by love as Cymru calls. The cloudy blue of railway smoke dissolved against the ageing roofing slates of old, attractions mined before our time evolved, and children chalked their words in letters bold, when mountain streams still flowed with yellow gold.
The mountain streams that flowed with yellow gold, and wrought the wedding bands of royal kings, still whisper love and tales the bards oft told, and magic echoes o’er the valleys and springs. The land where dragons roam and wizards dwell, where singing voices set our fathers free, returning home my heart begins to swell, rejoice my pride in Wales, her mystery, across the bay her beauty stood by me.
Sarah Rayburn
My Example
Form: Novelinee
Electric Earth
This century, the twenty-first, will change forever attitudes that humans share. Relationships shall surely rearrange for we’ll have energy at last, to spare. Our batteries will be charged by the sun and oilfield ownership won’t mean a hoot. The politics of greed shall come undone. We’ll find some other reason for dispute, but gone will be our reason to pollute.
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