new form every day... Catena Rondo (day 13 of 365 in 365)

2011-01-14 00:15

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LIFE'S RHYTHM

life operates in a certain rhythm
along a specific line, a particular scheme
and though concrete in senses, is really a dream
life operates in a certain rhythm

along a specific line, a particular scheme
these things they seem so easily to fall away
even though we try so hard to make them stay
along a specific line, a particular scheme

these things they seem so easily to fall away
there is very little in this existence truly final
so we live on drumbeats tribal and primal
these things they seem so easily to fall away

life operates in a certain rhythm
along a specific line, a particular scheme
and though concrete in senses is really a dream
life operates in a certain rhythm


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From: http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/list.html


Catena Rondo

This form is the brainchild of Robin Skelton, academic, writer, poet and anthologist. It is a Quatrain, and the second line forms a rhyming couplet with the third line and is also used as the first and fourth line of the following stanza. Any number of stanzas can be created this way and the final stanza is a repeat of the first. This gives a rhyme scheme of;

A. B. b. A..... B. C. c B…. C. D. d. C….finally …

F. A. a. F...... A. B. b. A.....

this is another form where I came up with the rhyming end words first and then built the poem around that... I also skipped the FAaF stanza because it really wasn't clear by this description what that really meant and the only thing that came up when I searched were message board stuff that referenced this same website. Nothing in searches for the educator expounded on the details of the form. So... this is what I got.


I think I did this wrong.. but... leaving it alone...

btw... rondos are not my favorite poetic device... but I'm working with it! :-P



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