This
is a form Invented by British Poet Luke Prater,
it
comprises ten lines, ten syllables per line, following the
rhyme-scheme/structure
aBa BcBc DcD
where
lowercase are iambic pentameter and uppercase are trochaic pentameter – they
alternate the whole way, yielding a perfect ‘checkerboard’ of stressed and
unstressed syllables, ten lines down x ten syllables across (=100 syllables
completely evenly distributed; the rhyme scheme is also even/symmetrical
mathematically).
Ampersandcastles
The
Ages, Dark, concede, recede like tides,
leaving
shores to Renaissance sand-castles
built
big, with shells and mortar; fairground rides
chitter-chatting
dusky-distance rascals.
From
beach to fair, knots in my hair, and sand,
shaken
out, like doubt of change, the mask-all.
Hey,
dance – try throwing shapes! An ampersand?
Just
like you, to groove to punctuation.
No
ampersand; sniff out a woman’s hand,
claiming
back some laddish inclination.
If
the syllabic feet (iambs and trochees) are singled out, and only the stressed
syllables are highlighted (and stanza-breaks removed), you can more clearly see
the ‘checkerboard’ of stresses and unstresses evenly distributed over the 10×10
(100) -
the
A | ges DARK | con CEDE | re CEDE | like TIDES
LEA
ving | SHORES to | REN ai | SSANCE sand | CA stles
built
BIG | with SHELLS | and MOR | tar; FAIR | ground RIDES
CHI
tter | CHA tting | DUS ky | DIS tance | RAS cals
from
BEACH | to FAIR | knots IN | my HAIR | and SAND
SHA
ken | OUT like | DOUBT of | CHANGE the | MASK-all
hey
DANCE | try THROW | ing SHAPES | an AMP | er SAND
JUST
like | YOU to | GROOVE to | PUNC tu | A tion
no
AM | per SAND | sniff OUT | a WO | man’s HAND
CLAI
ming | BACK some | LA ddish | IN cli | NA tion.
Pasted
from <http://www.lukeprater.com/stress-matrix-forms/>
Example Poem
Here I have expanded
the concept to write a
Stress Maxtrix Dectet with the
diminishing Hexeverse form concept/
The Experiment
'Twas the tempest
thrumming through our culture
restraint forgotten,
crowding at the till.
Leaders sought to
feed- not kill the vulture.
Ask not how will I serve, but how my will
best be served if
pork be granted voters?
Give them from their
own cart; they are the thill
made to pull. We're simply gift promoters.
If business pledged what cannot be sustained
government will bail
out General Motors
because the Union
votes have been ordained.
Envy, greed, and
yes, annoyance
have marked our
liberty's demise.
Harking this took no
clairvoyance.
Largess bestowed is
no surprise.
Bondage first then faith -spiritual,
courage, then
liberty; which grows
abundance, before
residual
complacent apathy
then shows.
Soon we are
dependent
and after that we're
slaves.
History's
resplendent
with samples of such
waves.
This is how we'll
end it.
kowtowing to the
raves.
Here we're standing
with troubled brow,
sad soft-landing
but we saw how.
(c) Lawrencealot -
December 25, 2012
No comments:
Post a Comment