• Converse in Couplets is an invented stanzaic form that emulates a Conversation Poem or dialogue in rhymed couplets. John Henson introduced this form at Poetry Styles. This could fall under the genre of a French Débat or Eclogue Débat with a prescribed stanzaic form. Shadow Poetry.comexpands this form shortening the name to Con-Verse to change the syllabic count of the couplets.
Converse in Couplets is:
○ stanzaic, written in any number of couplets.
○ syllabic, all lines are 11 syllables.
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a conversation between at least 2 voices.
The Age Old Story by Judi Van Gorder
I got caught in the hall without a hall-pass,
my practice ran late, then I ran out of gas
You were told before to be home by seven
and no excuses pave the road to heaven.
I would have called but you do not understand
things didn’t play out the way that I planned.
It’s the third time this week that you’ve come home late.
You could be dead in a ditch while I fret and wait.
Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?/topic/2192-invented-forms-from-poetry-styles/
My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on this fine PMO resource.
Con-Verse
The Con-Verse, created by Connie Marcum Wong, consists of three or more 2-line rhyming stanzas (couplets). The meter of this form is in syllabic verse.
Rhyme scheme: aa,bb,cc,dd,ee
Meter: 7,7,8,8,9,9,10,10,11,11
(Syllabic verse only counts the number of syllables in a line.)
This form consists of three or more couplets which ascend by one syllable up to and until you reach a syllabic count of eleven which would contain ten lines.
This process may be repeated for a longer verse. If repeated, you must begin your first couplet with the syllabic count of seven again and continue from there
Pasted from http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/converse.html
Many thanks to the ShadowPoetry site.
My Example
Toilet Seat Lament (Con-verse)
The seat was up again, dear!
What?honey – I didn’t hear.
The toilet seat, you just left up!
It makes it easy for the pup.
Don’t give me that “doggies drinking bit!”
Dear, just put it down before you sit!
© Lawrencealot – October 10, 2014
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