POETIC FORMS #3KYRIELLE, TRIOLET, VILLANELLE, PANTOUM, [SONNET]

REPETITION!

• FORMS THAT ARE DEFINED BY REPETITION OF SPECIFIC LINES

KYRIELLE

• THE KYRIELLE IS A FRENCH FORM WRITTEN IN QUATRAINS (MIN. 3)

• USUALLY HAS A RHYME SCHEME OF AABB WITH 1 REFRAIN (LAST LINE)

• USUALLY LINES OF 8 SYLLABLES EACH

YOU MAKE ME CRY

BY SUZANNE HONOUR

1 WHEN I WAKE UP YOU START TO SCOFF 2 YOU PICK ON ME AND TELL ME OFF 3 YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO MAKE ME CRY 4 YOU FIND A FAULT TO AMPLIFY

5 I FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT6 TO TURN AND IGNORE YOUR INSULT 7 "I'M NOT PERFECT" I REPLY 8 YOU FIND A FAULT TO AMPLIFY

9 OUR OWN PURSUITS WE THEN RESUME10 IT'S MOSTLY IN A DIFFERENT ROOM11 IN INTERESTS WE DIVERSIFY12 YOU FIND A FAULT TO AMPLIFY

13 WILL IT CONTINUE, WILL IT END14 WILL WE MAKE UP OR JUST PRETEND15 FOR NOW SING ME A LULLABY16 DON'T FIND A FAULT TO AMPLIFY

TRIOLET • HAS EXACTLY 8 LINES AND TWO RHYMES

• LINES 1, 4, AND 7 ARE THE SAME

• LINES 2 AND 8 ARE ALSO THE SAME

• EXTRA CHALLENGE: SET AN EXACT NUMBER OF SYLLABLES PER LINE (EX. 8 OR 10?)

TRIOLET EXAMPLE FAIR MAID, CLAD ALL IN MOURNING BLACKRIDES OFF UPON HER GOLDEN STEED.A MOCKING GESTURE: HEART SHE LACK'D.FAIR MAID, CLAD ALL IN MOURNING BLACK,SHEDS NOT A TEAR AND TURNS HER BACKWITH NO REGRETS FOR WICKED DEEDS.FAIR MAID, CLAD ALL IN MOURNING BLACK,RIDES OFF UPON HER GOLDEN STEED.

PRACTICE!

• YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO WRITE A TRIOLET!• REMEMBER: THERE ARE 8 LINES IN TOTAL

- FIRST CREATE THREE LINES (SYLLABLE COUNT IS UP TO YOU (8-10?)- LINE 4 IS THE SAME AS LINE 1- CREATE LINES 5 AND 6- LINE 7 IS THE SAME AS LINE 1 - LINE 8 IS THE SAME AS LINE 2

VILLANELLE • HAS EXACTLY 19 LINES OF (USUALLY) 10 SYLLABLES EACH

• 5 THREE-LINE STANZAS, AND A FINAL QUATRAIN

• ONLY TWO SETS OF RHYME (A, B) AND TWO REFRAINS

• LINE 1 - A - 1ST REFRAIN• LINE 2 - B• LINE 3 - A - 2ND REFRAIN  • LINE 4 - A• LINE 5 - B• LINE 6 - A - 1ST REFRAIN (SAME AS LINE 1)  • LINE 7 - A• LINE 8 - B• LINE 9 - A - 2ND REFRAIN (SAME AS LINE 2)

• LINE 10 - A• LINE 11 - B• LINE 12 - A - 1ST REFRAIN (SAME AS LINE 1)  • LINE 13 - A• LINE 14 - B• LINE 15 - A - 2ND REFRAIN (SAME AS LINE 2)  • LINE 16 - A• LINE 17 - B• LINE 18 - A - 1ST REFRAIN (SAME AS LINE 1)• LINE 19 - A - 2ND REFRAIN (SAME AS LINE 2)

PANTOUM • ORIGINATED IN MALAYSIA

• A PANTOUM IS MADE UP OF A SERIES OF INTERLOCKING QUATRAINS

• THE 2ND AND 4TH LINES OF EACH STANZA BECOME THE 1ST AND 3RD LINES OF THE NEXT STANZA

• LAST LINE = SAME AS FIRST LINE OF POEM

PANTOUM EXAMPLE RIVERSIDE

(1) AS I WALK BY THE RIVERSIDE(2) RIPPLES DISTURB THE WATER(3) FISH DART UPSTREAM(4) FIGHTING AGAINST THE FLOW

(2) RIPPLES DISTURB THE WATER (5) STRUGGLING TO THEIR DESTINATION(4) FIGHTING AGAINST THE FLOW (6) IN THEIR UNDERWATER WORLD

(5) STRUGGLING TO THEIR DESTINATION(3) FISH DART UPSTREAM (6) THROUGH THE FIELDS AND VALES AND VALLEYS THEY GLIDE(1) AS I WALK BY THE RIVERSIDE

SONNET • SONNETS ARE NOT DEFINED BY REPETITION

• SONNETS ARE DEFINED BY:- NUMBER OF LINES (14)- NUMBER OF SYLLABLES PER LINE (10)- RHYME SCHEME (ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG) = SHAKESPEARIAN- RHYME SCHEME (ABBA, ABBA, CDECDE OR CDCDCD) = PETRARCHAN

• INCLUDE A TURN OR VOLTA

THE END!