[Newspoetry] a poetic scheme

[david moses fruchter]

oops -- my mistake.  thanks for catching that.  either of your suggestions
sounds good to me -- five stanzas (eliminating the final abc) or six,
including it.  and i like pentagon for five -- for six, either sexagon or
the more traditional hexagon would do, depending perhaps on the poem's
content...

--d


On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, John wrote:

>
> > here's the schema:
> >
> > five stanzas, each of three lines.
> >
> > rhyme scheme:
> >
> > abc
> > bcd
> > cde
> > dea
> > eab
> > abc
>
> I count six rhyme schemes.  Actually five, but the first one is repeated.
> Is that last stanza in error, or is it really a six stanza poem?
>
> Or are you suggesting the poem can be any multiple of five stanzas, with the
> five rhyme schemes repeating?
>
> Regarding naming the form...assuming it is five, or a multiple of five,
> stanzas:
> How about: Pentagon
> that certainly corresponds well with the first two subjects
>
> > possible subjects:
> >
> > the spirit of dissent
> > cycles of growth, consumption, waste, decay
> > an emotion with no names
> > the color blue
>
> (If it's six stanzas, you could go with sexagon....but those who didn't know
> Latin might get the wrong idea...)
>
>