Writing Group: Terza Rima

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The prompt this week was form poetry, specifically the Terza Rima. Here are the guidelines for writing one:

  • Poem comprised of tercets (or three-line stanzas)
  • Lines are eight to 10 syllables long (usually iambic meter)
  • Lines one and three rhyme in each tercet Line two rhymes with lines one and three of the next tercet (creating a rhyme pattern like this: aba/bcb/cdc/ded and so on)
  • Poem can end on a tercet, couplet, or single line (Writers Digest)

Form poetry is difficult for me, it is difficult to work within specific rules but it is helpful also. I have to actively work to change my way of thinking. Challenges are good and it makes me a stronger writer. I didn’t follow iambic meter in this poem mainly because of time limitations. If I go back and rewrite it, yes, I would write in iambic pentameter. Have you written in this form poetry before? Let me know in the comments.

Oh, here are summer days filled with rain
Or melting heat from a brilliant summer sun
We await when the summer begins to wane 

Don’t hold your breath, the heat has just begun
Like kids, let us while away each hot sunny day
Don’t you miss those childhood days of fun

When we could all join in the fray
Those lost days when we could play for force
Not scared when anyone would chase us away

We might have all been a bit more coarse
Making a wild bouquet with every single flower
Bouncing the ball in a game of horse 

We could have been a princess in a tower
All I know for sure is at the end of the day we needed a shower

Thank you KW Photography for allowing me to use your wonderful photos!

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Texas born, I grew up hunting and fishing. Now I love travel and cooking, a good beer and a great story. People are their stories and I hope to share mine. I have a ridiculously adorable canine companion named Bear, a supportive family, and a wonderful husband.

1 comments on “Writing Group: Terza Rima”

  1. I did try this form once, and that poem, “A Green Fairy,” is featured in the anthology Faery Footprints (one of the books I’ll have at my autograph session at the Maryland Renaissance Festival in August!).

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