KillerMuffin
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Hey, it's been a while since I learned a new form. I went snooping and found this little treasure.
It's an old french form and you know how they like their repetition and rhyming! This one is interesting, I think.
Some how to do it links:
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/9282/kyrielle.html
http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page3.html
http://www.poetryuk.co.uk/workshop/kyrielle.htm
From the first link:
The Kyrielle was once a very popular French form and dates from the Middle Ages.
It is a simple form written in quatrains (four lines of poetry) and it includes a refrain (repeat line, phrase, or word.
As is normal with French poetry it is syllabic, (usually eight syllables and is so in this case).
Accordingly we end up with quatrains rhyming like this a.a.b.B.. c.c.b.B etc and each quatrain finishing with the same line, phrase or word.
Here is a very enjoyable example by John Payne:
A Little Pain
A little pain, a little pleasure.
A little heaping up of treasure,
Then no more gazing upon the sun.
All things must end that have begun.
Where is the time for hope or doubt?
A puff of the wind and life is out:
A turn of the wheel and the rest is won.
All things must end that have begun.
Golden mornings and purple night,
Life that fails with the failing light:
Death is the only deathless one.
All things must end that have begun.
John Payne
In this example, you will notice that a rhyme pattern is established where couplets were used. As an alternative however, a rhyme may be used using alternate line rhyme and so we would end up with a pattern of a.b.a.B...c.b.c.B etc
Constructing this poem the poet has quite a choice: Another alternative is for the second line not rhyme at all, so we would end up with;
A.X. a. B...c.X.c.B etc
An even more unusual variation is the Kyrielle Sonnet
As you know the Sonnet is a 14 line poem. The natural tendency for french forms to link back also means that if we take a three stanza Kyrielle and add the first line (The link back as with ther Rondel Prime) and the refrain we have another French Sonnet and we would end up with.
A.a. b. B...c.c.b.B...d.d.b.B...A.B
Enjoy!
It's an old french form and you know how they like their repetition and rhyming! This one is interesting, I think.
Some how to do it links:
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/9282/kyrielle.html
http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page3.html
http://www.poetryuk.co.uk/workshop/kyrielle.htm
From the first link:
The Kyrielle was once a very popular French form and dates from the Middle Ages.
It is a simple form written in quatrains (four lines of poetry) and it includes a refrain (repeat line, phrase, or word.
As is normal with French poetry it is syllabic, (usually eight syllables and is so in this case).
Accordingly we end up with quatrains rhyming like this a.a.b.B.. c.c.b.B etc and each quatrain finishing with the same line, phrase or word.
Here is a very enjoyable example by John Payne:
A Little Pain
A little pain, a little pleasure.
A little heaping up of treasure,
Then no more gazing upon the sun.
All things must end that have begun.
Where is the time for hope or doubt?
A puff of the wind and life is out:
A turn of the wheel and the rest is won.
All things must end that have begun.
Golden mornings and purple night,
Life that fails with the failing light:
Death is the only deathless one.
All things must end that have begun.
John Payne
In this example, you will notice that a rhyme pattern is established where couplets were used. As an alternative however, a rhyme may be used using alternate line rhyme and so we would end up with a pattern of a.b.a.B...c.b.c.B etc
Constructing this poem the poet has quite a choice: Another alternative is for the second line not rhyme at all, so we would end up with;
A.X. a. B...c.X.c.B etc
An even more unusual variation is the Kyrielle Sonnet
As you know the Sonnet is a 14 line poem. The natural tendency for french forms to link back also means that if we take a three stanza Kyrielle and add the first line (The link back as with ther Rondel Prime) and the refrain we have another French Sonnet and we would end up with.
A.a. b. B...c.c.b.B...d.d.b.B...A.B
Enjoy!
