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 Poetry: September 15, 2010 Issue [#3969] |
  Poetry This week: Complex & Rhyming Alliterisen Forms Edited by: redridinghooMore Newsletters By This Editor   1. About this Newsletter 2. A Word from our Sponsor 3. Letter from the Editor 4. Editor's Picks 5. A Word from Writing.Com 6. Ask & Answer 7. Removal instructions  Attempting to avoid doing my Literacy Development homework last weekend, I turned to random research of poetry forms. Eventually, I found myself at ShadowPoetry.com's list of poetry forms. I am fond of alliteration, so my eye was immediately drawn to the Alliterisen. This weekend I discovered an active email address for Udit, the Alliterisen's architect. I sent an email interview to him, but haven't heard back yet-which is understandable from the last minute of the request. If and when I hear from him, I shall share any updates I get about the form with you in a future newsletter.    Complex and Rhyming Alliterisen Poetry Forms The Alliterisen is a new form created by a young poet from India: Udit Bhatia. This isn't the only form he's invented. He also created the Cascade poetry form (Poetic Asides). There are two variations of the form: the Rhyming Alliterisen, and the Complex Alliterisen. HISTORY This poetry form was created within this last decade. My guess is around 2006, since I find no mention of it before that date. If this creation date is correct, then Udit was only about eighteen when he crafted it. The name was his friend's idea (Allpoetry.com), which combines the word alliteration-a key element of the poem-and the meaning of Udit (which some sources have as risen [http://www.birthvillage.com/Name/Udit], but others have as grown, awakened, or shining [http://www.hiren.info/indian-baby-names/Boy/U].) RHYMING ALLITERISEN This is the simpler of the two variations. MUST HAVES --Must have only 7 syllables in each line. --Must use aabbccd rhyme scheme. --Must have only 7 lines in the stanza. --Must have one alliteration per line. --Must be only one stanza (although you could create one with two stanzas and call it a Double Rhyming Alliterisen-which means a three stanza one would be called a Triple Rhyming Alliterisen, and so on.) COULD HAVES or What's The Poet's Choice In All This? --Any subject. COMPLEX ALLITERISEN I know the form is called a Complex Alliterisen, but I think it is slightly more complicated than it needs to be when using the inventor's directions located at ShadowPoetry.com: 1st line- x syllables 2nd line- x+2 syllables 3rd line- x-1 syllables 4th line- (x+2)-1 syllables 5th line- x-2 syllables 6th line- (x+2)-2 syllables 7th line- x syllables Here is my set of slightly easier directions (where I will use an "S" in order to depict your base syllable count rather than an "x"): 1st line: S syllables 2nd line: S+2 syllables 3rd line: S-1 syllables 4th line: S+1 syllables 5th line: S-2 syllables 6th line: S syllables 7th line: S syllables So, if you decided you wanted a base syllable count of 12 syllables you would follow this pattern: 1st line: 12 syllables 2nd line: 14 syllables 3rd line: 11 syllables 4th line: 13 syllables 5th line: 10 syllables 6th line: 12 syllables 7th line: 12 syllables MUST HAVES --Follow either syllabic pattern above. --Must have only 7 lines in the stanza. --Must have two alliterations per line. --Must be only one stanza (although you could create one with two stanzas and call it a Double Complex Alliterisen-which means a three stanza one would be called a Triple Complex Alliterisen, and so on.) COULD HAVES or What's The Poet's Choice In All This? --Rhyme or not. --Select any number of syllables for your base number (indicated above with an "x" or "S" depending on which set of directions you use). --Any subject. SOURCE NOTES: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/alliterisen.html http://allpoetry.com/column/1818700 http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/2010/06/03/PoeticFormCascadePoem.aspx...  
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