Friday, 18 November 2011

Do you have the time to write one of these rhymes?

Leonine rhyme, medial rhyme:


Rhyme that occurs at the caesura and line end within a single line, like a rhymed couplet


printed as a single line:


I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers





Caesural rhyme, interlaced rhyme:


Rhymes that occur at the caesura and line end within a pair of lines--like an abab quatrain


printed as two lines:





Sweet is the treading of wine, and sweet the feet of the dove;


But a goodlier gift is thine than foam of the grapes or love.


Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harp-string of gold,


A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?





Or the following unusual example, an In Memoriam stanza (abba) printed as couplets:





Upon the mat she lies and leers and on the tawny throat of her


Flutters the soft and silky fur or ripples to her pointed ears.





Come forth, my lovely seneschal! so somnolent, so statuesque!


Come forth you exquisite grotesque! half woman and half animal!

Do you have the time to write one of these rhymes?
Leonine rhyme:


The trees will bend to the pushing of the wind.





Caesural rhyme:


The bright light of the sun, sparkled on the ocean like gems;


In the hot summer we run from our school year problems.


We each tell an old story, that were once told as new;


Until the dawn becomes dark and stormy and we become few.

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