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IcyFlamez89
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0 posted 2003-03-14 07:44 PM

It's a quiz. I never knew there were so many types. I hope you guys enjoy it.
http://quiz.ravenblack.net/poeticform.pl

Here's my result:

I am free verse,
and know the rules,
and use them -
when they suit me,
which admittedly
tends not to be the case.
Authority,
tradition, laws;
very much not
my sort
of thing,
I fear.
Perhaps, on occasion,
I go too far in the opposite direction,
and shun the accepted merely because it's accepted,
accepting its opposite merely because it isn't;
but since it's clearly
better that than
being normal;
well,
why
not?

Amara
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since 2003-02-23

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East of the moon, west of the sun.

1 posted 2003-03-14 07:52 PM

I'm terza rima, and I talk and smile.
Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away
I let mine out, and chatter all the while.

I'm rarely on my own - a wasted day
Is any day that's spent without a friend,
With nothing much to do or hear or say.

I like to be with people, and depend
On company for being entertained;
Which seems a good solution, in the end.

Heh, cool!

Blessed Be Thee!
- Stephanie

Every heart has hidden treasures...a secret wish, a silent dream, and a cherished love. [Unknown]

Miah
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Posts 1062
Pennsylvania

2 posted 2003-03-14 07:58 PM

I am heroic couplets; most precise
And fond of order. Planned and structured. Nice.
I know, of course, just what I want; I know,
As well, what I will do to make it so.
This doesn't mean that I attempt to shun
Excitement, entertainment, pleasure, fun;
But they must keep their place, like all the rest;
They might be good, but ordered life is best.

Kielo
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3 posted 2003-03-14 08:04 PM

I'm terza rima too... lol neato.

Kielo
(P.S. Where'd you go?)

I know only one thing, and that thing is that I know nothing.

serenity blaze
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4 posted 2003-03-14 08:52 PM

terza rima...

guess I should learn how to write one, but I'd probably rumple up the paper and throw it AT the garbage can...

[This message has been edited by serenity blaze (03-14-2003 08:53 PM).]

JP
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Loomis, CA

5 posted 2003-03-14 09:29 PM

Okay, it said I was a 'heroic couplet', or a triolet (I hope it didn't say toilet). However, I think it is wrong. I think I'm a free verse.... What do y'all think I am?

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

Sunshine

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6 posted 2003-03-14 09:33 PM

Well if I'm going to be a terza rima, at least the company is good...never figgered me for that...it did give me an option to be a sonnet, but if I came in saying that, Nan would get out her eraser....

Kielo
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7 posted 2003-03-14 11:12 PM

LOL... There's a whole slew of terza rimas...

Maybe I should learn what one is?

Kielo

I know only one thing, and that thing is that I know nothing.

IcyFlamez89
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8 posted 2003-03-14 11:41 PM

Well, in terza rima, it's obvious that the stanzas are always in the tercet (3-line grouping). The rhyming pattern is kinda weird. it is AbA BcB CdC DeD EfE etc. depending on howlong it is. The three line of the stanzas and the rhyme pattern linking the tsanzas together are said to have an indirect reference to the Trinity. A good example is Dante's Divine Comedy. Hmmm, der are a lot of terza rima people here. maybe we'll get more diversity lata on. Anyway, i retook the quiz. I got free verse like 8 out of 10 times. The other 2 said I'm a haiku. Both suit me quite well

[This message has been edited by IcyFlamez89 (03-14-2003 11:46 PM).]

Severn
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9 posted 2003-03-14 11:57 PM

Well given that the poem that suits freeverse is whacked anyway - all this mumbo-jumbo about breaking rules like it's a form of poetry for delinquints I'm not surprised that freeverse poets aren't emerging with freeverse personalities..

the point of freeverse is that there ARE no rules...sheesh - there's a difference..

At any rate I'm a descort...nice word...

K

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10 posted 2003-03-15 01:13 AM

I am a Terza Rima

SARCASM BREEDS A BROKEN HEART, and I have enough cracks. Please stop breaking me!

Marshalzu

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11 posted 2003-03-15 09:09 AM

I'm a blank verse

Ron

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12 posted 2003-03-15 10:05 AM

Tanka

(You're welcome)

Amara
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East of the moon, west of the sun.

13 posted 2003-03-15 12:34 PM

Lotta Terza- Terza- er, Terza-Whatsits (heh, can't remember! Too early!) Well, at least I have company!

Though I've never written, read, or even heard of a Terza-whatever-it's-called before this.

Blessed Be Thee!
- Stephanie

Every heart has hidden treasures...a secret wish, a silent dream, and a cherished love. [Unknown]

Nan

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14 posted 2003-03-15 02:09 PM

quote:

A cywydd llosgyrnog; I'm one.
"A what?" Well, quite. There'd be no fun
In being understood; I
Thrive upon obliquity.
Don't comprehend or follow me,
For mysteria's my ally.

If I weren't this, I'd be blank verse. I may not rhyme, but at least I'd live in a world of iambic pentameter

Wind

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since 2002-10-12

Posts 2981

15 posted 2003-03-15 05:47 PM

Haiku.

Short, terse, unfriendly,
Yet sometimes quite emotive;
I am the Haiku.

Wait a sec! Am I really unfriendly?

I look and I listen, does not everyone?

-Diane lee Wilson

[This message has been edited by Wind (03-15-2003 05:49 PM).]

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

16 posted 2003-03-15 06:44 PM

I'm balanced, measured, sensible (at least,
I think I am, and usually I'm right)

A sonnet

Nightshade

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17 posted 2003-03-15 09:32 PM

I don't think I have one! Awww Nuts!!

Cpat Hair

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18 posted 2003-03-15 10:22 PM

I am the tanka.
The attention of others
Is unnerving, and
Since I try not to draw it,
I'm left alone. Which is good

Mysteria

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19 posted 2003-03-16 03:02 AM

Now this is funny and I tried to do it twice with honesty I am a ....
free verse,
and know the rules,
and use them -
when they suit me,
which admittedly
tends not to be the case.
Authority,
tradition, laws;
very much not
my sort
of thing,
I fear.
Perhaps, on occasion,
I go too far in the opposite direction,
and shun the accepted merely because it's accepted,
accepting its opposite merely because it isn't;
but since it's clearly
better that than
being normal;
well,
why
not?

With apologies to all of you free versers. LOL

anonymousfemale
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Posts 2797
Limbo

20 posted 2003-03-16 08:54 AM

I'm terza rima, and I talk and smile.
Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away
I let mine out, and chatter all the while.

I'm rarely on my own - a wasted day
Is any day that's spent without a friend,
With nothing much to do or hear or say.

I like to be with people, and depend
On company for being entertained;
Which seems a good solution, in the end.
--------------
LMFAO! yeah, rightio - I'm such a people person and all.

I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.

Crazy Eddie
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Posts 178

21 posted 2003-03-16 07:15 PM

Tanka

quote:
I am the tanka.
The attention of others
Is unnerving, and
Since I try not to draw it,
I'm left alone. Which is good.

Couldn't have put it better myself

Moonlight Romeo

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since 2001-09-10

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22 posted 2003-03-17 02:31 PM

I'm terza rima, and I talk and smile.
Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away
I let mine out, and chatter all the while.

I'm rarely on my own - a wasted day
Is any day that's spent without a friend,
With nothing much to do or hear or say.

I like to be with people, and depend
On company for being entertained;
Which seems a good solution, in the end.

What a wonderful quiz, I always knew that I was this. Thank you.

What light through yon window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

[This message has been edited by Moonlight Romeo (03-17-2003 02:31 PM).]

JP
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23 posted 2003-03-17 07:32 PM

Okay, did it again and now I'm really confused:

Ottava rima? Me? That can't be right!
   Too frivolous? But tut, there's no such thing!
Let others ponder thoughts of wrong and right,
   Or sit and think how much they love the spring;
I'd rather spend my time in gleeful spite,
   Or maybe laugh, or maybe sit and sing.
Besides, it might be fun to be inspiring -
But surely it would get so very tiring.</td></tr></table>

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

[This message has been edited by JP (03-17-2003 07:32 PM).]

SmartChick
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24 posted 2003-03-17 08:04 PM

Well, looks like I am a Terza Rima. Or, if I wasn't a Terza Rima, I would be a Rubai. I guess I better get to learning these two forms. Help, Nan! I am in distress!

Sunshine

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25 posted 2003-03-17 08:39 PM

Nightshade, you have to TAKE THE QUIZ!!!! Hugging you....

take it, so we know for sure you're not what you think you are! LOL...I'm going to take it again simply because heck...some of the remodeling pressure is off [yes, folks, for those who don't know...two months of pure dust has finally paid off....] and I am thinking that now that I don't have to see through a smoke screen, I may see, uh, more clearly? Or is that clear, morely? LOL...I'll let you know if my response changes....

Sunshine

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26 posted 2003-03-17 08:45 PM

Now, see? Today, I am

quote:
I am heroic couplets; most precise
And fond of order. Planned and structured. Nice.
I know, of course, just what I want; I know,
As well, what I will do to make it so.
This doesn't mean that I attempt to shun
Excitement, entertainment, pleasure, fun;
But they must keep their place, like all the rest;
They might be good, but ordered life is best.

and outside of that, blank verse!

I'll hit free verse one of these days....

It's kind of like that colorgenics quiz that we all played with a few months ago...depending on your mood, the time of day [the time of month for some of us] etc., it's all subjective....

and right now? I'm playing in the fact that it's the day that the REMODELING WAS FINISHED!!!!!!

Joannak
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Indiana, USA

27 posted 2003-03-20 09:49 AM

I am a tanka....how fitting. And if I were not a tanka, then a triolet. Thanks, IcyFlame for this link, was a much-needed chuckle on a day where laughter was missing.

What better way to become immortal than to wake up each day and write? Ray Bradbury

rosepetals25

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28 posted 2003-03-20 10:12 AM

I am a I am a Terza Rima... I have no idea what that is (I have some research to do), but I think I would be a haiku or tanka. That is based simply on the fact that I love that form hehe.

If I find anything about the I am a Terza Rima I will let you all know, since there seems to be many of us

Tara

"wake me up inside
call my name and save me from the dark"
-Bring Me To Life by Evanescence

rosepetals25

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29 posted 2003-03-20 10:18 AM

Ok.. It didn't take long..lol.. but here is what I found on this website..
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/7091/plessons/fmisc.html

A TERZA RIMA takes the tercet rhyming scheme a step further. The `blank' sound ending the second line in the first stanza, becomes the rhyming sound for the second stanza:

The day is done
The night comes in (A-B-A)
Down goes the sun

Wind chimes of tin
Ring soft and clear (B-C-B)
Gently in the wind

Think of me, dear
Looking at stars (C-D-C...etc.)
Wanting you here

..... as I said.. I think I'm more the Haiku type LOL.. but I might give this a try.. I'm looking for some inspiration

"wake me up inside
call my name and save me from the dark"
-Bring Me To Life by Evanescence

[This message has been edited by rosepetals25 (03-20-2003 10:20 AM).]

INclan
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Indiana, USA

30 posted 2003-03-20 11:47 AM

I'm the lai, with no sort
Of grave, solemn thought,
And I
Will never be caught
By miseries sought,
Nor sigh;
Where battles are fought
Or arguments brought,
I fly

An interesting quiz...thanx

[This message has been edited by INclan (03-20-2003 11:49 AM).]

IcyFlamez89
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Posts 292
Jersey City NJ

31 posted 2003-03-20 08:58 PM

I think Sunshine is rite. My result changes depending on my mood. I was feeling a bit drowsy since we had a double of science to day and 4 fun i retook the quiz:

I know I should be telling you that I'm
A rubai - but perhaps some other time.
It sounds like work, and anyway, it's late -
Unless I sleep, I'll be too tired to rhyme.

Besides, there's plates to clear and cups to clink,
And when that's done I have to sit and think,
Since then it won't be long before I need
To sleep again and eat again and drink.

I dunt think I've ever gotten this, or even heard of it 4 that matter. But it's nice to see change once in a while eh?

SPIRIT
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32 posted 2003-03-23 12:46 PM

I am confused and I don't have a clue to which I would be.

defenestrate
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33 posted 2003-03-23 04:46 AM

A cywydd llosgyrnog; I'm one.
"A what?" Well, quite. There'd be no fun
In being understood; I
Thrive upon obliquity.
Don't comprehend or follow me,
For mystery's my ally.

brian madden
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since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

34 posted 2003-03-23 07:40 PM

I'm terza rima, and I talk and smile.
Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away
I let mine out, and chatter all the while.

I'm rarely on my own - a wasted day
Is any day that's spent without a friend,
With nothing much to do or hear or say.

I like to be with people, and depend
On company for being entertained;
Which seems a good solution, in the end.

--------------------

that is nothing like me!!!! damn thingie is broken either that or I got the answers wrong

"Aboard a shipwreck train, give my umbrella to the rain dogs For I am a rain dog, too" Tom Waits

Wind

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35 posted 2003-04-04 09:05 PM

Am I the only one who took this test and came out Haiku? Don't even try to tell me you wouldn't drop a sticky bun off a sky scraper!

Never be normal!

littlewing
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36 posted 2003-04-05 04:02 PM

I'm terza rima, and I talk and smile.
Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away
I let mine out, and chatter all the while.

I'm rarely on my own - a wasted day
Is any day that's spent without a friend,
With nothing much to do or hear or say.

I like to be with people, and depend
On company for being entertained;
Which seems a good solution, in the end.

(If you were not Terza Rima you would be a Sonnet.)

littlewing
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37 posted 2003-04-05 04:03 PM

hehe

[This message has been edited by littlewing (04-05-2003 04:04 PM).]

Charisma

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38 posted 2003-04-05 04:05 PM

Pip For(u)m

Halcyon
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since 2003-04-10

Posts 43
Arizona, USA

39 posted 2003-04-10 07:01 AM

quote:
I am, of course, none other than blank verse.
I don't know where I'm going, yes, quite right;
And when I get there (if I ever do)
I might not recognise it. So? Your point?
Why should I have a destination set?
I'm relatively happy as I am,
And wouldn't want to be forever aimed
Towards some future path or special goal.
It's not to do with laziness, as such.
It's just that one the whole I'd rather not
Be bothered - so I drift contentedly;
An underrated way of life, I find.

Heh, so true.
Wind, don't feel too bad. I also chose to drop the lil' sticky bun at the innocent people below.

My first ever poem was a haiku, and here another, from me to you.

Haiku, they tell me;
The lone soul that is chosen
And so I wonder.

Only the warrior who can admit mortal weakness will be bolstered by immortal strength

Fading Away

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40 posted 2003-05-30 02:42 PM

That was pretty cool...

I'm the lai, with no sort
Of grave, solemn thought,
And I
Will never be caught
By miseries sought,
Nor sigh;
Where battles are fought
Or arguments brought,
I fly.

--Marie

"You can be idealistic for all of ten seconds before you die." (Imitation of Life)

Skyfire

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since 2000-12-27

Posts 3381
Riding

41 posted 2003-06-01 12:17 PM

I'm terza rima, and I talk and smile.
Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away
I let mine out, and chatter all the while.

I'm rarely on my own - a wasted day
Is any day that's spent without a friend,
With nothing much to do or hear or say.

I like to be with people, and depend
On company for being entertained;
Which seems a good solution, in the end.
------------------------------------------

Ummm.... but I really DON'T like to be with people....

blueyedlioness
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since 2003-04-24

Posts 289
USA

42 posted 2003-06-01 11:53 AM

Well, I am supposedly terza rima, though I don't know that they're right... I'm not an extremely talkative person.

Oh, well... it was fun, anyway.

-Lioness

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

43 posted 2003-06-01 02:15 PM

WOW! How did I miss this one????
I must therefore be 'blank' verse?
LOL, Now I'll go read what this is all about, and maybe I'll find out who I really am???

quatro
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since 2003-04-29

Posts 392
Galveston, Texas

44 posted 2003-06-03 04:45 PM

I'm terza rima, and I talk and smile.
Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away
I let mine out, and chatter all the while.

I'm rarely on my own - a wasted day
Is any day that's spent without a friend,
With nothing much to do or hear or say.

I like to be with people, and depend
On company for being entertained;
Which seems a good solution, in the end.

quatro

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