Poetry Forms

Give me a poetry form and rules to the form. If you see one that has already been posted do not post it twice.

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Various forms of poetry are inspiring to write.

I have just come across a form called Terzanelle.

A terzanelle is a modified villanelle. It uses terza rima's interlocked rhyme pattern, but fits the villanelle form of five triplets and a quatrain. The middle line of the 1st stanza becomes the third line of the next stanza, and so on...

Example: "Terzanelle in Thunderweather"

By Lewis Turco's

"This is the moment when shadows gather
under the elms, the cornices and eaves.
This is the center of thunderweather.

The birds are quiet among these white leaves
where wind stutters, starts, then moves steadily
under the elms, the cornices, and eaves

there are our voices speaking guardedly
about the sky, of the sheets of lightening

that illuminate moments. In the stark
shades we inhibit, there are no words for
our throats. Our eyes are speaking in the dark

of things we cannot say, cannot ignore.
This is the moment when shadows gather,
shades we inhibit. There are no words, for
this is the center of thunderweather."

Notice how the first and third lines of the 1st stanza repeat in the quatrain's second and fourth. Though not necessary, it is quite amazing how subtle and powerful it can be.

I have recently written a terzanelle and let me vouch that they are indeed, difficult.