The Ode Less Travelled by Fry Stephen

Author:Fry, Stephen [Fry, Stephen]
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2007-02-01T06:00:00+00:00

II

Stanzaic Variations

OPEN FORMS

Tercets, quatrains and other stanzas–terza rima–ottava rima–rhyme royal–ruba’iyat–the Spenserian stanza

A TERCET is a stanza of three lines, QUATRAINS come in fours, CINQUAINS in fives, SIXAINS in sixes. That much is obvious. There are however specific formal requirements for ‘proper’ cinquains or sixains written in the French manner. There is, for example, a sixain form more commonly called the sestina, which we will examine in a separate section. Forms which follow a set pattern are called closed forms: the haiku, limerick and sonnet would be examples of single-stanza closed forms. Forms which leave the overall length of a poem up to the poet are called open forms.

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