CROSS POST: new form every day... Envelope Stanza (day 35 of 365 poems in 365 days)

2011-02-04 09:50:00

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THE DREAM UNREQUITED

at night she sleeps in fitful dreams of him
holding tight the thought of true love returned
against reality affection spurned
so in fantasy she chooses to swim


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Envelope Stanza

This is a very interesting form and was probably created by Francesco Petrarcha when he moved from the Sicilian court. As well as being the building blocks of the Italian octave, the Spanish and French octave use it also. However, it is a poetry form in its own right, and probably the latter pair have set the precedence for the meter which if we look at the French or Spanish roots consists of eight syllables, or English purists insisting on Iambic Tetrameter. This gives a suggested pattern of:

x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x b
x x x x x x x b
x x x x x x x a



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