Day Twenty-Three
I'm doing the prompt at napowrimo.net today.
Today, let’s try writing triolets. A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetramenter (for a total of eight syllables per line), and the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines. This means that the poem begins and ends with the same couplet. Beyond this, there is a tight rhyme scheme (helped along by the repetition of lines) — ABaAabAB.
Here’s an example by Thomas Hardy:
Birds at Winter
Around the house the flakes fly faster,
And all the berries now are gone
From holly and cotoneaster
Around the house. The flakes fly! – faster
Shutting indoors the crumb-outcaster
We used to see upon the lawn
Around the house. The Flakes fly faster
And all the berries now are gone!
Here’s mine:
UP AND DOWN
Life’s more like a rollercoaster
Thrill seekers coming back for
more
For the cherries in the orchard
Life’s more like a rollercoaster
Up and down and squashed and
tortured
Always more as time gets shorter
Life’s more like a rollercoaster
Thrill seekers coming back for
more
230413Day Twenty-Three last year.
