April spells National Poetry Writing Month and AuthorHouse wants you to be ready. Here is the second in my series of AuthorHouse Writing Master Classes. In this article I will be draw on a number of writers, rather than focusing on one individual. The reason for this is I want to highlight the many ways you can construct a poem.
Hopefully this authorhouse Poetry Writing Master Class will help you meet the NaPoWriMo challenge of writing 30 poems in 30 days throughout April. Hopefully it will also provide you with the knowledge and confidence to try new styles of poetry. If you usually write Pantoums, why not try a few Shakespearean and Petrachan Sonnets as well? This should help you reach that 30 poem threshold.
I would like to start by acknowledging and thanking Maureen Thorsen. It is her love of poetry that drove her challenge herself to write 30 poems within the month of April back in 2003. That same love has since inspired hundreds of authors to take on the NaPoWriMo challenge and I hope this AuthorHouse Master Class will encourage you to join as well.
In Part one of this AuthorHouse Poetry Writing Master Class I will introduce the building blocks of poetry and the various methods of constructing a poem using correct poetic form.
1.Constructing a Poem
A poem's building blocks are its lines. A poem is built by putting lines together to form the poem's body. Two lines together denote a poem written in couplets, whereas a poem with three or more lines together is written in stanzas.
In turn, if each stanza is constructed of regular lines, for example six four-line stanzas, they are isometric. A poem featuring irregular lines, for example three four-line stanzas followed by one three-line stanza, has heterometric stanzas.
2.Poetic Form
The most common forms of poetry include,
The Villanelle: 19 lines intricately woven together, usually comprising five stanzas.
The Pantoum: A poem of any length divided into four-line stanzas called quatrains. The first and last lines of each stanza are always the same and rhyme, with the second and third lines also rhyming. This rhyme scheme is signified as abba.
The Sonnet: 14 lines long, typically using iambic pentameter for its rhythm. There are also two further types of sonnet.
€Shakespearean sonnets have a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
€Petrarchan sonnets have a rhyme scheme of abba abba cde cde.
Part two of the AuthorHouse Poetry Writing Master Class will discuss imagery, tone and irony. Once again I hope this AuthorHouse Poetry Writing Master Class will inspire you to take on the NaPoWriMo challenge this April.
Hopefully this authorhouse Poetry Writing Master Class will help you meet the NaPoWriMo challenge of writing 30 poems in 30 days throughout April. Hopefully it will also provide you with the knowledge and confidence to try new styles of poetry. If you usually write Pantoums, why not try a few Shakespearean and Petrachan Sonnets as well? This should help you reach that 30 poem threshold.
I would like to start by acknowledging and thanking Maureen Thorsen. It is her love of poetry that drove her challenge herself to write 30 poems within the month of April back in 2003. That same love has since inspired hundreds of authors to take on the NaPoWriMo challenge and I hope this AuthorHouse Master Class will encourage you to join as well.
In Part one of this AuthorHouse Poetry Writing Master Class I will introduce the building blocks of poetry and the various methods of constructing a poem using correct poetic form.
1.Constructing a Poem
A poem's building blocks are its lines. A poem is built by putting lines together to form the poem's body. Two lines together denote a poem written in couplets, whereas a poem with three or more lines together is written in stanzas.
In turn, if each stanza is constructed of regular lines, for example six four-line stanzas, they are isometric. A poem featuring irregular lines, for example three four-line stanzas followed by one three-line stanza, has heterometric stanzas.
2.Poetic Form
The most common forms of poetry include,
The Villanelle: 19 lines intricately woven together, usually comprising five stanzas.
The Pantoum: A poem of any length divided into four-line stanzas called quatrains. The first and last lines of each stanza are always the same and rhyme, with the second and third lines also rhyming. This rhyme scheme is signified as abba.
The Sonnet: 14 lines long, typically using iambic pentameter for its rhythm. There are also two further types of sonnet.
€Shakespearean sonnets have a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
€Petrarchan sonnets have a rhyme scheme of abba abba cde cde.
Part two of the AuthorHouse Poetry Writing Master Class will discuss imagery, tone and irony. Once again I hope this AuthorHouse Poetry Writing Master Class will inspire you to take on the NaPoWriMo challenge this April.