A collection of poems for The National Poetry Month 2020.
All in different forms. Each a learning experience.
🏆 First place in Azurite Awards (Moonstone - Poetry)
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The place where the sky meets the sea, Is where all the broken dreams hide; The lost chances and the hopes that died, Born as rainbows, for you and me.
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Today's form is the Italian Quatrain, also known as the Envelope Stanza.
This is a very interesting form and was probably created by Francesco Petrarcha when he moved from the Sicilian court. As well as being the building blocks of the Italian octave, the Spanish and French octave use it also. However, it is a poetry form in its own right, and probably the latter pair have set the precedence for the meter which if we look at the French or Spanish roots consists of eight syllables, or English purists insisting on Iambic Tetrameter. This gives a suggested pattern of;
x x x x x x x a x x x x x x x b x x x x x x x b x x x x x x x a
~Source: thepoetsgarret.com~
I have ignored the long / short stress needed for Iambic meter, focussing on the rhyme and syllable count. Someday, I will master the stresses too, but not today.
