Poetry in the Comics

[Remec]

I meant to leave a note about this when I first saw it, but late is better than not at all, right? <g>

In the comic strip "Luann" recently, they've been running a storyline about a coming school dance. The character of Gunther is planning on asking Luann and he's telling another boy about his invitation to her.

Gunther: It's a terzanelle:repeating triplets with a quatrain at the end.
Friend: Man, I have no idea what you just said, but it sounds hot.


<BG>

 

[My Erotic Tale]

cute >>> hehehe
I guess to show the poem would have killed the joke! (*_*)

 

[minsue]

. .

 

[WickedEve]

I meant to leave a note about this when I first saw it, but late is better than not at all, right? <g>

In the comic strip "Luann" recently, they've been running a storyline about a coming school dance. The character of Gunther is planning on asking Luann and he's telling another boy about his invitation to her.

Gunther: It's a terzanelle:repeating triplets with a quatrain at the end.
Friend: Man, I have no idea what you just said, but it sounds hot.


<BG>

My favorite the terzanelle. And what's hotter than triplets? lol

 

[Angeline]

My favorite the terzanelle. And what's hotter than triplets? lol

Terzanelles are no laughing matter. And sestinas, they can make you cry.

 

[Liar]

Terzanelles are no laughing matter. And sestinas, they can make you cry.

Yeah, only every time I try to write'em.

 

[Angeline]

Yeah, only every time I try to write'em.

Well, I write em, but I ain't grinnin when I do. Mostly I'm furrowing my brow and cursing The_Fool, who usually cons me into doing them.

 

[WickedEve]

Terzanelles are no laughing matter. And sestinas, they can make you cry.

I don't think I've tried a sestina. Don't we have a sestina thread here somewhere?

 

[Angeline]

I don't think I've tried a sestina. Don't we have a sestina thread here somewhere?

Oh baby, you haven't lived till you've tried a sestina.

I just did a search--I thought Boo started a sestina thread once, but I couldn't find it.

I'll start one.

I think Carrington should write one, heehee

 

[WickedEve]

Oh baby, you haven't lived till you've tried a sestina.

I just did a search--I thought Boo started a sestina thread once, but I couldn't find it.

I'll start one.

I think Carrington should write one, heehee

I'm working on the 3rd stanza of one and it's kind of boring and... and... frustrating. I will finish it. I won't be pretty but it will be a sestina.

 

[Angeline]

I'm working on the 3rd stanza of one and it's kind of boring and... and... frustrating. I will finish it. I won't be pretty but it will be a sestina.

They take forever.

I have one I've been working on for months. I have a stanza and a half (plus the tercet) to go.

I take it out and write a line and get sick of it and put it away...

 

[WickedEve]

They take forever.

I have one I've been working on for months. I have a stanza and a half (plus the tercet) to go.

I take it out and write a line and get sick of it and put it away...

It's not fun. The terzanelle is fun. The sestina is like homework.

 

[Angeline]

It's not fun. The terzanelle is fun. The sestina is like homework.

I'm gonna start a thread for them.

Did you ever try a paradelle? That makes a sestina look like a walk in the park, lol. (Just forget I ever brought it up).

 

[Guest]

I'm gonna start a thread for them.

Did you ever try a paradelle? That makes a sestina look like a walk in the park, lol. (Just forget I ever brought it up).

You just invented that, you sadiste! I looked for it in my New Book of Forms and it's not there.

 

[Guest]

Apologies

I found it here.

 

[Angeline]

You just invented that, you sadiste! I looked for it in my New Book of Forms and it's not there.

Heh. I wish!

and I quote from here

The Paradelle, considered one of the more difficult of recent poetic forms, is mistakenly believed to have originated in eleventh century France, but in truth it was a parody of the Villanelle as created by Billy Collins. The Paradelle consists of four six-line stanzas with a repetitive pattern of fixed words. Line AB & CD are identical with EF composed of all the words from A and C without any additions. This scheme is identical for Stanzas 1-3, and the fourth stanza then takes every word from the preceding three stanzas, again without any addition or alteration. The one pure consistency of the Paradelle is that the syllables remain the same count of 6 throughout.

In numeric example:

1a,
1a,
2a,
2a,
3:1;3a,
4:1;3a
1b,
1b,
2b,
2b,
3:1;3b,
4:1;3b
1c,
1c,
2c,
2c,
3:1;3c,
4:1;3c

1a;b;c,
2a;b;c,
3a;b;c,
4a;b;c,
5a;b;c,
6a;b;c

A literary example would be

Echo Off the Catskill mountains
Rebounding off mountains
Rebounding off mountains
I heard the Catskill call
I heard the Catskill call
The Catskill Mountains call
The Catskill Mountains call

The indian summer
The indian summer
echos the past for all
echos the past for all
Past Indian Echos
Past Indian Echos

The flavor of lightning
The flavor of lightning
bounces off the ozone
bounces off the ozone
Ozone lightning flavor
Ozone lightning flavor

The Catskill call bounces,
rebounding off mountains
Summer Ozone echos
the indian flavor
I, for all of the past,
the lightning, heard the off

For more examples of the Paradelle, look to Billy Collins' editorial work "A Brief history of the Paradelle."

And I be a masochiste cuz I actually wrote one.

 

[Angeline]

I found it here.

My fevered brain ain't weird enough to conjure that (but apparently Billy Collins's is...)

 

[PatCarrington]

I think Carrington should write one, heehee

........troublemaker.

 

[Angeline]

........troublemaker.

think of me as your jiminy cricket. i know you can do it.



ps i bet *catbabe* thinks so, too.

 

[PatCarrington]

think of me as your jiminy cricket. i know you can do it.



ps i bet *catbabe* thinks so, too.

ganging up on me, eh?

..........not that i mind being surrounded or anything.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Not that I can't do it.
I can do ANYTHING!

With a starvation diet (and chronic bulimia) I can down to 95 pounds.
With tight lacing (and a cracked rib) I get down to a sixteen inch waist.

With a chlorine migraine* (and a tendance to gibber) I could write a sestina,
but who would want to read it?

Certainly not I!






* Chlorine migraine: a poisonous headache.