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  bullet   The 7/5 Trochee
  bullet   A L'Arora
  bullet   Alliterisen
  bullet   The Alouette
  bullet   The Blitz Poem
  bullet   The Brevette
  bullet   Cascade
  bullet   Christ-in-a-Rhyme
  bullet   CinqTroisDecaLa
  bullet   Clarity Pyramid
  bullet   Constanza
  bullet   Con-Verse
  bullet   The Compound Word Verse
  bullet   Decuain
  bullet   Diatelle
  bullet   Duo-rhyme
  bullet   Epulaeryu
  bullet   Essence
  bullet   The Florette
  bullet   The Florette #2
  bullet   Grá Reformata
  bullet   Jeffreys Sonnet
  bullet   Joseph's Star
  bullet   Harrisham Rhyme
  bullet   HexSonnetta
  bullet   Inverted Refrain
  bullet   LaCharta
  bullet   LaJemme
  bullet   La'libertas
  bullet   Lannet
  bullet   La'ritmo
  bullet   La’Tuin
  bullet   Lauranelle
  bullet   Lento
  bullet   Licentia Rhyme Form
  bullet   Line Messaging
  bullet   Loop Poetry
  bullet   Mini-monoverse
  bullet   Memento
  bullet   The Mirror Sestet
  bullet   Mirrored Refrain
  bullet   Monchielle
  bullet   Monotetra
  bullet   Musette
  bullet   Nove Otto
  bullet   Octameter
  bullet   Octain Refrain
  bullet   Octelle
  bullet   Oddquain
  bullet   Paradelle
  bullet   Parallelogram de Crystalline
  bullet   The Pictorial
  bullet   Pleiades
  bullet   Puente
  bullet   Quadrilew
  bullet   RemyLa Rhyme Form
  bullet   Rictameter
  bullet   Shadow Sonnet
  bullet   Spirit’s Vessel
  bullet   Staccato
  bullet   Swap Quatrain
  bullet   Synchronicity
  bullet   The Tableau
  bullet   Tri-fall
  bullet   Trijan Refrain
  bullet   Trilonnet
  bullet   Trinet
  bullet   Triquain
  bullet   Triquatrain
  bullet   Triquint
  bullet   Trois-par-Huit
  bullet   Trolaan
  bullet   Vers Beaucoup
  bullet   Villonnet
  bullet   Wrapped Refrain
  bullet   Wrapped Refrain #2
  bullet   ZaniLa Rhyme
 

Trois-par-Huit

The Trois-par-Huit was created by Lorraine M. Kanter.

Trois-par-Huit (Three-by-Eight or Octa-Tri for short), a poem containing three stanzas of 3, 3 and 2 lines OR 3, 2 and 3 lines: 8 lines total with a syllable count of 3, 6, 9, 12, 12, 9, 6, 3. The rhyming pattern is AAB BBC CC where the last line is the title of the poem and summarizes the meaning of the poem. *Note: These poems are to appear center aligned.


Example #1:
Christmas Tree (3, 3, 2 pattern)

                     Light glimmers;
                silver tinsel shimmers
          serenading ornamental shades

       of a satin emerald and ruby parade
mingling with silhouettes of aged crystal cascade
       Snowmen, Pixies and Angels to see

             Atop the wise men three…
                     Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree (3, 2, 3 pattern)

                       Light glimmers;
                  silver tinsel shimmers
            serenading ornamental shades

         of a satin emerald and ruby parade
mingling with silhouettes of aged crystal cascade

          Snowmen, Pixies and Angels to see
                Atop the wise men three…
                        Christmas Tree

Copyright © 2004 Lorraine M. Kanter

Example #2:
Nature's King

                              The firs rise
                   touching star-twinkled skies
                standing vigil o’er evening’s glow

wrapped in sparkling charms of glitter gold, ashen snow
         embraces kisses of crimson berries below
            where silvery cherubs dance and sing

                   …symbols of joy to bring
                            Nature’s King.

Copyright © 2004 Lorraine M. Kanter

Example #3:

Daniel's explanation and example (who named this form for me): Since Huitain is a French verse-form coming from the 15th and early 16th Centuries - an eight-line stanza with 8 or 10 syllables in each line, often iambic. Very similar to yours, it was written with three rhymes, but one utilized four times, and there were a number of rhyme schemes, like ababbcbc and abbaacac, and Un huitain enlace, or an enclosed huitain which had a rhyme scheme of aabaabcc... and since you vary from the typical iambic feet, I'd suggest you call your Huitain variation something like: "Trois-par-Huit" or "Three-by-Eight":

Trois-par-Huit

                             Two-tercet
                   piece with single couplet
          will constitute an eight-line verse-form

graduating from three to twelve ticks… to perform
 a pirouette, descending back to three…  in warm
          inter-rhymes that describe and repeat

                       its title in one sweet
                            Trois-par-Huit

Copyright © 2004 Daniel J. Ricketts


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