NationStates Jolt Archive

Simple question: What's your favorite poetic form? Are you hip to Haiku? Do you savor sonnets? Are you down with the Dozens? Do you like Limericks? Are you a fan of free verse? Do you praise prose poems? Do you dig doggerel?

I like lunes
Which are a short form
And very simple

Senryu are also
A form I like to play with
Syllables or "on"?

Cinquains
Simple? Easy?
Counting, adding, writing...
Short forms aren't so easy after all
Poems

Note that I'm not adding a poll
There are too many forms
And not enough options...

The Villanelle and Villanella are nice too
I hope you aren't tired of this posting style
I'm almost done

Just make sure you answer me true
And please don't go on for a mile
I'm almost done

Which type appeals to you?
(Lets have no bile!)
I'm almost done

Tell us your favorite
We'll try not to forget
I'm done

Internet Haiku of lol

U mak me rofl
LAWL, w/ capital letrz
Laffin' mai ass of!!1!!1

Epic.


Illaid, Paradise Lost, etc.

Couplets and triplets.

This:

http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/Prosody/Prosody-I.html

Most definitely parodies, whatever form they might take.

Italian Sonnet.


The Poet's Doom


An Object was walking along the King's highway wrapped in
meditation and with little else on, when he suddenly found himself
at the gates of a strange city. On applying for admittance, he was
arrested as a necessitator of ordinances, and taken before the
King.

"Who are you," said the King, "and what is your business in life?"

"Snouter the Sneak," replied the Object, with ready invention;
"pick-pocket."

The King was about to command him to be released when the Prime
Minister suggested that the prisoner's fingers be examined. They
were found greatly flattened and calloused at the ends.

"Ha!" cried the King; "I told you so! - he is addicted to counting
syllables. This is a poet. Turn him over to the Lord High
Dissuader from the Head Habit."

"My liege," said the Inventor-in-Ordinary of Ingenious Penalties,
"I venture to suggest a keener affliction.

"Name it," the King said.

"Let him retain that head!"

It was so ordered.

Prose.

If it's not iambic pentameter,
I'm having none of it, okay mister?

If it's not iambic pentameter,
I'm having none of it, okay mister?

No Homer for you, then.

No Homer for you, then.

No Homer for you!

I like different poems
Style?
I could not care less
One might say I have no style
Wait...