Poetry Forms : Soft-Songed Tercet

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement, Simple
Description:	This form has four requirements. It is iambic. The schema is: xxxxxa xxxxxbxxxxxb xxxxxa There must be an unusual image or turn of phrase. It must have a soft feel to it. There is also a multi-stanza form called the soft-songed triplet.
Schematic:	Rhyme/Syllable: xxxxxa xxxxxbxxxxxb xxxxxa Meter: xX xX xX

Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for the wonderful resource.

Soft Songed Tercet is an invented verse form found at Poetry Base that has an unusual request, the verse must have a "soft feel".

The Soft Songed Tercet is:

a tristich, a poem in 3 lines. When written in more than one tercet the form is oddly named the Soft Songed Triplet. ("Tercet" is 3 line unit as is a "triplet", both of which can be written in any number within a poem. The words are often used interchangeably however, the classic English "triplet" is usually monorhymed. So technically the name Soft Songed Tercet properly should apply to both a single tristich or the stanzaic form of any number of tercets.)
metered, iambic, L1 &L3 are trimeter, L2 is hexameter.
rhymed, rhymed a(bb)a L2 has internal rhyme.
composed with an unusual image.
composed with a "soft feel".
x x x x x a
x x x x x b x x x x x b
x x x x x a

Furry Fix by jvg

Silky fluff warms my palm
as I cup a small plump rabbit waiting to jump
free. Its fine fur a balm.

Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful resource.

Example Poem

Fluppet

So fluffy I've been made

I'll bring your daughter joy - become her favorite toy,

she'll never be afraid.

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