Stanzaic:
Any number of quatrains.
Syllabic:
Multiple versions. I have seen 11/11/10/7, but documented here are:
the Wordsworth version:
11/11/11/7, and the 11/10/11/7 version.
Meter:
Dactylic, with the final foot
being either catelectic or brachycatelectic
(lacking either one or two
syllables).
Rhyme:
cross rhyme, end-rhyme abab.
Refrain:
The first 7 syllable of line one making up line 4.
Romantic stanza
Type:
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Structure,
Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement,
Stanzaic
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Description:
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Alternating
quatrains of basically dactylic meter where lines one and three have eleven
syllables, line two has ten, and line four is the first seven syllables of
line one.
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Attributed to:
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Maksim
Bahdanovic, stanza so named by Bob Newman
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Origin:
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Belarus
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Schematic:
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Rhyme:
(Ba)baB
Meter: Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx Xxx Xxx Xxx X Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx Xxx Xxx X |
Starting Point:
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With
each quatrain, start with the first/last line, since that line establishes
your rhymes.
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Pasted
from <http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/005/516.shtml>
Maksim Bahdanovič (1891-1917) was the greatest lyric poet in the
Belarusian language, and one of his best-loved poems is entitled simply Romance. It begins, "Venus, new-risen above us
appearing..." The verse form it uses is unusual and quite tricky. There is
no standard name for it, so I have chosen to call it the romantic
stanza. As an example, here is an alternative version of a well-known
poem by Wordsworth: Daffodils
Pasted
from <http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/romance.htm>
The form was named Romantic Stanza by Bob Newman
Example Poems
Out Genesis
Clustering,
combining dust aggregates in time
Assembling Hydrogen
particles as they must
be a bit weightier
so they may start their climb.
Clustering,
combining dust.
Billions of our
years go by with no life at all.
Galaxies born, made
of stars that explode and die.
Pressures of their
dying create life's wherewithal.
Billions of our
years go by.
Busting outward from
that blast, heavy elements
driven here by
cosmic winds let know life commence.
all living things
spring from cataclysmic events
bursting outward
from that blast.
©
Lawrencealot - January 26, 2013
unpublished
Since the specifications contain so much variance, I did the
above in formal Dactylic tetramter, and the following in the indicated
11/10/11/7 format.
Neither are exactly the pattern used by the creator's famous
poem.
Our
Genesis (Romantic Stanza - 11/10/11/7 Version)
Clustering,
combining dust aggregating
assembling
Hydrogen just as it must.
Assembling
atoms, Helium's a-making,
Clustering,
combining dust.
Billions of
our years gone by with life absent.
Galaxies
born, made from stars as they die.
Pressures of
their dying create content .
Billions of
our years gone by.
Busting
outward from that blast, all elements
required for
biologic life at last.
All living
things sprung from stars' final events,
bursting
outward from that blast.
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