I've been working on a series of longer form poems recently, namely the villanelle and sestina. Whenever I get stuck on the sestina, I go back and work on the tritina.
Helen Frost has a number of helpful worksheets on poetic form on her web site. She suggests starting with the tritina since the sestina is a more difficult form. This is an idea I have taken to heart.
Here are the nuts and bolts of the form.
10-line poem made of three, 3-line stanzas and a 1-line envoi
There is no rhyme scheme but rather an end word scheme. It is:
A
B
C
C
A
B
B
C
A
A, B, and C (all in the last line/envoi)
So, the challenge for the week is to write a tritina. Won't you join us? Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
How funny. I posted a tritina for Poetry Friday last Friday. Like this form. Will try another.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the link to Helen's page. Those are great worksheets. I am working on a villanelle and this will be very helpful.
ReplyDeleteThis is for Linda. We had dinner this evening. I only see her once every year or so since she lives far away, right now in Japan.
ReplyDeleteOld Friend
It’s good seeing an old friend.
You remember the two of you,
people from blurring stories.
Now you share new stories.
You are two new friends
playing “Getting to know you.”
It isn’t as if each of you
were made of stories,
or that stories make you friends.
But friends make you into stories.
—Kate Coombs, 2014
all rights reserved
Well, that was fun and a wee bit challenging!
ReplyDeleteDAYTIME ENTERTAINMENT
My umbrella parachutes open
Droplets tap dance on its roof –
Protecting me from drizzle,
As natures symphony drizzles
My once cloudy visage opens
Like a retractable roof,
I then twist this handheld roof
To dance to the rhythmic drizzle
As clouds prepare to open,
Sunlight opens so roof top drizzle can catch a breather.
(c) Charles Waters 2014 all rights reserved.