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Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Quinzaines...a lesson short form poetry

Gather round, chickadees... today is Quinzaine poetry day...

"Quinze" in French means fifteen. A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables distributed in three lines. The first line makes a statement and the next two lines ask a question relating to the statement.
Here is the pattern:

Line 1: Statement of 7 syllables
Line 2: Beginning of question with 5 syllables
Line 3: End of question with 3 syllables

A few of mine:

In a room, a candle burns.
Does it long to be
a bright star?
~~*~~

Moments fly away on breeze.
When the wind stops will
time stand still?
~~*~~

It occurred to me that when an acccomplished poet who masters poetry and can actually do adequate closed form styles--that doing them can be a Palor Trick...something to entertain the masses and also a way of Grandstanding~showing off. lol....

Hey look at what I can do...

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