Poetry Friday: Solitary Muse
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For this week’s Poetry Friday, sponsored by A Teaching Life, I am sharing a poem about writing. This poem is written in the Triolet format which is structured as follows:
- ABaAabAB rhyme scheme.
- Often all lines are in iambic tetrameter: the first, fourth and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines, thereby making the initial and final couplets identical as well.
Solitary Muse
I love these fruitful days alone,
writing words I hope will last
borrowed voices, not my own
I love these fruitful days alone.
Despotic muse controls my tone,
speaks through fingers flying fast,
I love these fruitful days alone,
writing words I hope will last.
~By Amanda L. Webster
I love this type of repetitive structure, especially for topics that require a bit of added tension. What I like best about the triolet is that you don’t always notice the repeating lines on first read. My first exposure to this form was in a poem written by one of my classmates this past semester. I read her poem a couple of times without noticing the repeating lines. So when I wrote my own, I was very interested in seeing whether the repetition was noticed by others. Did you notice the repeating lines above before I told you they were there?
Mandy
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Very nicely done, Mandy! Triolets are tricky.
January 13, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Just beautiful triolet…it is a wonderful form…and thank you for linking my poem…I think it was my first (and only) triolet.
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January 13, 2012 at 12:38 pm
What an interesting form. I may have to play with this one…
I really love how lyrical your triolet is.
January 13, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Very nice! I love your “despotic muse.”
January 14, 2012 at 11:35 am
I love triolets! Thanks for sharing yours – every writer is nodding along, I’m sure.
January 14, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Thanks for your clear explanation of this form. I’ll have to try it!
January 15, 2012 at 5:30 pm