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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 1:01 am Post subject: Poetry: The Terza Rima |
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I'm offering 300 points and 3 in-depth crits to the winner of this contest. However, it ends fairly soon, so listen up:
Your task is to write a Terza Rima, a form of poetry that dates back to when Dante first used it with his work the Divina Commedia. It's considered one of the more-challenging poetry forms to be used in English.
Here's a description:
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| Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet. |
And an example; Robert Frost's Acquainted With the Night:
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I have been one acquainted with the night. (a)
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. (b)
I have outwalked the furthest city light. (a)
I have looked down the saddest city lane. (b)
I have passed by the watchman on his beat (c)
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. (b)
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet (c)
When far away an interrupted cry (d)
Came over houses from another street, (c)
But not to call me back or say good-by; (d)
And further still at an unearthly height (e)
One luminary clock against the sky (d)
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. (e)
I have been one acquainted with the night. (e) |
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2nd place will be awarded 200 points and 2 crits, as third will be awarded 100 points and one crit. However, this is only if there are 5 entrants or more.
The contest ends midnight (GMT) on Sunday the 27th
Get writing! |
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Do you want the entries posted in this thread or PMed to you?
Sounds the shiz. I think I'll give it a go.  |
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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I'm interested, especially now that APs and extracurricular madnesses are mostly over. Sounds cool!
Colleen |
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:38 am Post subject: |
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I'll take a go at this. Though I haven't written a poem since about March...we'll see if I can scrap anything up, but I love the structure you propose.
Any rules beyond that? |
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whence
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:31 am Post subject: |
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Only one. Have fun with it.
:p
Actually, though, if you're asking if you can submit more then one, the answer's yes. However, you can only win once.
Oh, and you can either post it here or pm it to me. Whichever you prefer. |
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Lummoxania, this don't half sound complicated!!!! |
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Does the poem have to be written just for this occasion? Only I wrote one in this style about a year ago and I'd really like to use it... |
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Kitty: No, you can enter an old piece if you desire to.
Good luck tro all potential applicants! Entry is closing in only 3[ish] more days.
NOTE: You may post your piece on the poetry boards before you enter it here. However, please state that it is for this contest somewhere on the thread [subtitle perhaps?] so I'll know not the critique it.
Happy writing!
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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Um I'm just going to go ahead and post here - hope that's ok. This form rocks  I had fun.
Stay
When the wind breathes, and leaves fall from the trees
With crisp complaints, to whom it may concern
And the sun prepares to travel overseas,
And still, when gentle air begins to turn
More vicious, bites your cheeks, your lips, your nose
And nights grow darker, colder, taciturn
And even still, when morning sunlight throws
A kinder veil over the world, and spring
Is whispered in the air and the hedgerows
And hinted by the birds that start to sing
Even past that, when grass is turning dry
The days are long, the air filled with the hum
Of insects, benign and malign; the sky
Throbs with heat like a beaten, aching drum
Still then, will I want you there next to me,
To watch the seasons go, and watch them come
Their beauty seems a painting, flat, empty
Without the rosy tint held in your eyes
Stay with me, and we will watch the sun rise. |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll enter if I have enough time. |
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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The contest ends tonight, and so far I've only recived two submissions!
I suggest hurrying up
~Ed |
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Crap. It ends tonight? I keep pondering over something to write and I get nothing. It isn't the format (I adore the format) it is my own lack of inspiration....Crap.
I may have to forfeit entering this... |
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Regrettably, I only received three entries to this contest; and thus no prize for second or third will be given.
However, there's still a winner, and he/she has been decided.
The winner of 'Poetry: The Terza Rima' is...
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cadmium! With her poem, "Under Construction". You may PM me with links for the pieces you want crits on.
Well, I'd like to offer a big 'Thank You!' to all who made this possible. Primarily Nate, who advertised it so beautifully, and the few people who actually took the time to attempt / enter this most humble competition.
Keep a weather eye for more (similar) contests soon to follow! |
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