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Conventional Forms of Poetry - Creative Writing

There are several common poetic forms with set structures including sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, blank verse, heroic couplets, haiku, and limericks. Sonnets have 14 lines in iambic pentameter and can be Shakespearean or Petrarchan in form. Villanelles have 19 lines in a repeating rhyme scheme. Sestinas follow a complex pattern of repeating six line stanzas. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter, while heroic couplets are rhyming pairs of iambic lines. Haiku are short three line poems with a specific syllable count. Limericks have a rhyming AABBA structure.

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Conventional Forms of Poetry - Creative Writing

There are several common poetic forms with set structures including sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, blank verse, heroic couplets, haiku, and limericks. Sonnets have 14 lines in iambic pentameter and can be Shakespearean or Petrarchan in form. Villanelles have 19 lines in a repeating rhyme scheme. Sestinas follow a complex pattern of repeating six line stanzas. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter, while heroic couplets are rhyming pairs of iambic lines. Haiku are short three line poems with a specific syllable count. Limericks have a rhyming AABBA structure.

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Conventional Forms of Poetry

There are several commonly known forms of conventional poetry that have their own rules regarding
stanza, length, any meter, or rhyme patterns.

1. SONNETS
 Is a fixed verse containing 14 lines in iambic pentameter.
 It is originated in Italy with the earliest sonnets written by Giacomo da Lentini who lived
from 1188 – 1240.

Sonnets has 2 variations:

a) Patriarchan Sonnet
 (1300) Francesco Petrarca’s “Canzonierre”, a book containing 317
Sonnets.
 It contains 14 lines of iambic pentameter.
 These lines are divided into two: the first is octave, and the final six
lines or sestet.
 ABBA ABBA – octave involves two rhymes scheme.
 Two or three rhyme patterns – CDECDE & CDCDCD (Sestet)
 The Sonnet set up a problem or describes an incident in its octave, then
resolves or reflects on its sestet.
 Ex: Sonnet 23 (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
b) Shakespearean Sonnet
 Also known as “English Sonnet”
 14 lines, these line are divided into 4 lines or quatrains and the final two
lines or couplet.
 The quatrains have a rhymes scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF with the final
couplet rhyming GG
 Ex: Sonnet 98
2. VILLANELLE
 Also has italian origins but it was popularized by the French.
 19 Lines spread across six stanzas.
 It has 5 tercets and a final stanza with four lines.
 The first and third lines of the stanza are repeated throughout the poem.
 The first line becomes the last line of the second stanza and fourth stanza.
 It follows the rhyme scheme ABA and these rhymes are repeated according to the
refrain.
 EX: The House in the Hill (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
3. SESTINA
 Invented by troubadours – court poets of the twelfth century in Southern France.
 It has Six Stanzas of Six Lines each and an evoi, a short stanza that ends the poem with 5
lines
 Ex: Sestina (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
4. BLANK VERSE
 Originated in Italy
 Written in Iambic Pentameter
 Unrhymed and traditionally uses dramatic speech
 “Paradise Lost” – written by Joan Milton in this closed form.
5. HEROIC COUPLET
 Composed of a pair rhyming lines often written in the iambic.
 Rhyme Scheme is AABBCC and so on
 The term “heroic” –it was seen as a form where a high subject matter can be written
about.

A – Wall C - Said
A – Call C - Read
B – Hands
B – Stands

6. HAIKU
 Traditional Japanese poetic form with a three line poem
 5 – 7 – 5 syllables count
 Frequently uses images in nature and conveys in one moment of time and illumination
about life and the world.

5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
17 syllables - TOTAL

7. LIMERICK
 Humorous poem consisting of five lines where the first, second, and fifth lines must
have seven to ten syllables that rhyme.
 Third and Fourth lines must have five to seven syllables that should also rhyme with
each other and have the same rhythm.

7 – 10 syllables 1st
7 – 10 syllables 2nd
5 – 7 syllables 3rd
5 – 7 syllables 4th
7 – 10 syllables 5th
17 syllables - TOTAL

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