Thursday, July 29, 2021

MONOTETRA

Thursday brings us Poetry Form, and the monotetra is offered by Grace.  The intricate and convoluted rules for some poetry forms simply talk me into stop...something about old dogs and new tricks, no doubt. For all my long years, I've been a "seat-of-the-pants" rhyming poet knowing nothing of proper poetic terms or forms, but no doubt metrical footing more often than not, not knowing what it was!  This is my first foray into monotetra....sort of!  Submitted to dVerse, July 29, 2021

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A monotetra is our task

Seems to me a lot to ask

Count the syllables, make it neat

Metrical feet, metrical feat


Who can remember how to rhyme

Counting syllables all the time

While garnering the words to use

Stifles my muse, stifles my muse





 

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16 comments:

  1. RedCatJuly 29, 2021 at 4:58 PM

    You made me laugh out loud. 😄 You perfectly sum up my feelings when I first started writing bound forms. Counting syllables in English is so different from Swedish. But with practice and a certain rule breaking streak, when it benefits the poem. My muse now dance with metrical feets.

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    1. JadeLiJuly 30, 2021 at 11:11 AM

      Helene, I love: "My muse now dance with metrical feet."

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  2. abigfatcanofwormsJuly 29, 2021 at 5:48 PM

    Ha ha ha! Love the protest!!

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  3. GraceJuly 29, 2021 at 6:40 PM

    Love this one Bev. Metrical feet and counting are challenges for me too.

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  4. Mary HoodJuly 29, 2021 at 6:59 PM

    Counting does indeed stifle my muse. Love how you worked this out.

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  5. Dr. Vandana SharmaJuly 29, 2021 at 10:40 PM

    Oh!! my god!! what a beautiful description and a beautiful justice to the form!!

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  6. Jane DoughertyJuly 30, 2021 at 12:13 AM

    Ah, go on! You know you love this type of poem!

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  7. MiskyJuly 30, 2021 at 4:20 AM

    And I got mine completely wrong. Maybe I'm too old to follow direction. LOL!

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  8. RaivenneJuly 30, 2021 at 10:13 AM

    Oh I giggled hard! With tongue firmly in cheek you've have captured my feelings for most metered poetry forms and I adore it.

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  9. JadeLiJuly 30, 2021 at 11:13 AM

    I appreciate free form poetry, but I prefer writing to forms. Sorry you are frustrated by the shackled feet of the muse (playing on what Helene said.) :)

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  10. KerfeJuly 30, 2021 at 12:25 PM

    I can identify...it's a game, but sometimes you don't feel like playing.

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  11. paeansunpluggedJuly 30, 2021 at 12:43 PM

    Haha! So love this. I find counting syllables robs the essence of my verses sometimes.

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  12. Sanaa RizviJuly 30, 2021 at 2:19 PM

    Hahaha I so love the humor in this one, Bev 💝💝

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  13. anotherKateJuly 30, 2021 at 5:22 PM

    Excellent! :D <3

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  14. A Reading WriterJuly 31, 2021 at 12:02 AM

    this is soooo adorable, Beverly!

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  15. Marion HortonJuly 31, 2021 at 9:24 AM

    Haha - very good.😊

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