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Monday, September 15, 2008

Flex Your Writing Muscles: TROCHAIC QUADRAMETER

We're going to write a group poem. Let's see how far we get! (Come one, come all -- lots of talent here! Don't be shy.)

Quick refresher:

Trochaic = a 2-beat poetic foot with the first syllable accented (DA-dum)
Quadrameter = 4 poetic feet per line

So Trochaic Quadrameter sounds like this:

DA-dum DA-dum DA-dum DA-dum

or DA-dum DA-dum DA-dum DAA

Okay?

I will write the first 2 lines in the comment box.
Each participant must write the next two lines.

So that each stanza will have been written by 2 people.

Rhyme pattern will be ABCB.

Clear as hot cocoa? Let's play!

8 comments:

  1. O, the angst of writing novels
    Why, I wonder, do I dare?

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  2. A poem? I cried, astounded,
    Novel in mind, I sneak back to my lair

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  3. Just_Me: I know you love me, so I'm going to edit your lines...they're not in trochaic quadrameter:

    So I cry, astounded, "Poem?
    No!" and sneak back to my lair.

    :D

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  4. Did I say I could write poetry???

    Where, anywhere, does it say I can write poetry?

    I tested out of my lit classes in college and didn't pay attention in high school (sorry Mrs. Willis)!

    Now.... ask me about sci-fi....

    :oP

    <--- just me, the rebellious one

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  5. Pages: naked, white and empty
    Hours lost by wandering thoughts

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  6. Red lines bleed across the pages
    Cutting my baby in half

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  7. Now are tempered by such rules,
    All those 'shoulds and musts and oughts!

    (replaces previous entry which didn't rhyme)

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