February 15, 2025

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Poetic Form – Suggestions For Composing Poetry

Some persons occur to poetry on retirement. When you retire you have quite a few spare hrs to fill, and some assume of seeking a thing new. That ‘new’ detail for some is poetry. That delivers troubles while, what to create about, how to create, what poetic design?

To some, a poem need to rhyme. People today remember poetry from their school decades, and feel ‘The Gentleman From Snowy River’ is what a poem have to be. This poem of AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson’s is a wonderful poet in the ‘Bush Ballad’ style, perfectly recognized to Australians. Many others may possibly bear in mind William Wordsworth with his ‘Host of Golden Daffodils’. But poems can occur in lots of other forms too.

There is the villanelle, haiku, ode, clerihew, sonnet and a thousand additional.

The poetic kind I want to converse about here is 1 I designed – the Cordonostic poem’. I designed it when I was encouraging out a Most important College trainer, training her students a minor about producing poetry. It was a combined class, and the principal passions for the pupils was either shoes, puppies, kittens, or soccer, dependent on gender and inclination. Handful of of the pupils have been interested in inventive crafting, let by yourself writing poetry.

I imagined about it and determined to established a problem to the college students, by supplying them a poetic form that utilised their counting expertise as effectively as their English expertise. The Cordonostic poem was my response. This is what it is all about.

This new poetic type – the ‘Cordonostic’ poem – was invented at 10.00 am 18 September 2006. The type should have an even amount of verses, and is based mostly on syllable counts as follows:

2 verses –

1st verse:

·1st line – 3 syllables

·2nd line – 5 syllables

·3rd line – 7 syllables

2nd verse:

·1st line – 7 syllables

·2nd line – 5 syllables

·3rd line – 3 syllables

Can be continued as wanted, holding to 3/5/77/5/3 syllable depend for even further verses.

Can be rhyming or non-rhyming, on any matter issue.

The Cordonostic poem must have at least just one line of enjambment (Enjambment is when a linguistic unit (phrase or sentence) in poetry runs around the line split. Enjambment is the opposite of end stopping, where every linguistic device corresponds with the line size).

An illustration of Cordonostic poetry:

Ananka

Expecting pet

her tummy filling.

Our hopes and goals are growing –

will the puppies stay up to

goals, or not? Only

time will notify.

and one more one:

Frog

Swimming in

our pool just over

the top rated stair – he did not know

chlorine was so risky.

I moved him to our

pond’s protection

and I hope

he will be secure there

with our fish, and other frogs.

In excess of the yrs quite a few frogs

have been moved like this.

They croak ‘thanks’.

So that is a Cordonostic poem – I leave it up to you to get it somewhere else!

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