Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
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
This last prompt was to write a ballad. Ballads are a bit of folk poetry that possibly came from oral story telling traditions. On that note, one of our club members wrote a short ballad, memorized it, deleted it, and then recited it allowed. It was impressive. At its most basic a ballad is a
