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ljrwrite New Member
since 2008-05-11
Posts 8MI,USA |
Patterns 'N Poetry, software program for poets, includes the poem form Terza Rima. Dante Alighieri using the Terza Rima form wrote the Divine Comedy. The form had been known before him. The pattern, an interlocking rhyme pattern (aba,bcb,cdc,ded, ee) lends itself to easy memorization and used by troubadours throughout France and Italy in the 11th, 12, and 13th century. Dante made it popular. Terza Rima , while use by French troubadours,is an Italian open chain rhyme poem format consisting of tercets, three line stanza.. The use of interlocking rhyme from stanza to stanza creates a forward motion to the poem. There is no limit to the number of tercets, but a group of tercets end with a couplet repeating the middle rhyme of the last tercet. Sometimes the poem is sometimes printed no line breaks between the tercets making it difficult to recognize. Dante, in his Divine Comedy did use line breaks. With no line breaks the pattern is often obscure to the reader so in Patterns 'N Poetry line breaks are included in the format. In English, Iambic Pentameter is the preferred choice, but other line lengths can be used as long as all lines are of equal length. It was introduced into England by Sir Thomas Wyatt in the 16th century. The first English usage was by Chaucer in Complaint to His Lady. The Terza Rima form has been used by Milton, Byron and Shelley. Chaucer: Complaint to His Lady Shelley: Ode to the West Wind In the 20th century poets using this form has included MacLeish, Auden, T.S. Elliot, Robert Frost and Derek Walcott. Frost:Acquainted With the Night |
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Grinch Member Elite
since 2005-12-31
Posts 2929Whoville |
You mean you’ve written down the basic form Presented on a CD or a disc, That we can read at night all safe and warm, For roughly two full months with no cash risk? I guess the idea is we take a look Then wonder at the styles we may have missed. But couldn’t I just go and read a book Or let my fingers google it instead, Just save the cash and trust my wiki luck? I think it makes more sense to use your head To keep your cash liquidity from harm By keeping your spare change under the bed. Of course I don’t intend to raise alarm But sometimes frugal has a certain charm. |
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