[Newspoetry] dictionary of forms

[gillespie william k]

palindrome: a text where the sequence of letters is the same forward and
backward

sonnet: a beautiful classical European form frequently degraded by
Newspoets, consisting of fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentameter.

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Joe Futrelle wrote:

> Hi Newspoets,
>
> Ben Emerick suggested adding links which give definitions of the forms
> in the forms index.  Here are definitions for the ones I understand,
> and everyone feel free to contribute additional/better definitions.
>
> Many of these come from William's Table of Forms
> @ http://www.wordwork.org/table/index.html
>
> 20-consonant: A Twenty Consonant poem is a Poem that uses each of the
> twenty consonants exactly once before repeating any of them. The use
> of vowels is unconstrained. Sometimes, a poet may choose to repeat
> each consonant indefinitely so long as no other consonant intervenes.
>
> 50-word: A poem with exactly 50 words in it.
>
> 51-word: A poem with exactly 51 words in it.
>
> abcederian: A poem which either by acrostic or some other means, uses
> letters in alphabetical order -- usually the entire alphabet.
> [William, should this be added to the table of forms under "letter /
> inclusive: serial"?]
>
> acrostic: A poem in which the initial letters of each line spell
> out a word or phrase.
>
> advertisement: An exciting new poetic form which can help you lose
> weight now -- without all the mess -- and has 30% more poetry than the
> leading form.
>
> anagram: An anagram is a poetic form in which the letters of a word or
> group of words are rearranged to create new words.
>
> automatic: An automatic poem is one the authorship of which consists
> simply of appropriating text from some extra-poetic source and framing
> it as a poem.
>
> credit card: A credit card poem consists of four words, each of which
> has four letters in it, with an optional expiration date.
>
> eigenwords: [this is complicated, I'll write a definition later]
>
> flicker: a combination of two texts which alternates between the
> texts at some level -- word, sentence, paragraph.
>
> letter poem: a poem in which each word contains a given letter.
>
> lipogram: a poem in which certain letters are excluded.
>
> portmanteau words: A portmanteau word is a neologism (made-up word)
> made by coupling together two phonetically related words, combining
> their shared elements. (e.g. "brainforest")
>
> segregated: a poem in which rich and poor language are kept separate.
>
> sonnet: [?]
>
> subtraction: the process of deleting words from a text.
>
> univocalic: a poem which excludes all but one vowel.
>
> --
> Joe Futrelle
> editor-without-chief
> Newspoetry daught calm
>
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