Exploring new forms one line at a time…
This is sort of a sampler of the hundreds of forms I have come across. Some are limited to the line length specified while others are merely useful for that length. The links below take you to poems I have written in these forms. These are not tutorials per se, nor were they presented as challenges. But I have included them here because for each of them I gave a brief explanation of the form so that you may write one of your own, if you feel so inclined.
- 1 Line ~ “A Portion of Pain” ~ 6-Word Memoir
- 2 Lines ~ “Summer Morning” ~ Doha
- 3 Lines ~ “Garden Spider” ~ Brevette
- 4 Lines ~ “An Old Woman” ~ Modified nursery rhyme
- 5 Lines ~ “The Cat Stole My Socks” ~ Emmett
- 6 Lines ~ “Friend” ~ Double Acrostic
- 7 Lines ~ “Loneliness” ~ Pleiades
- 8 Lines ~ “The Messenger” ~ The Abercrombie
- 9 Lines ~ “Rainy Day” ~ Amaranth
- 10 Lines ~ “Blest Be the Tie” ~ Egg Timer
- 11 Lines ~ “Without You” ~ Shoe Laces
- 12 Lines ~ “I Wish to Be” ~ Rondine
- 13 Lines ~ “Transitory” ~ Chaucerian Roundel
- 14 Lines ~ “Stowaway” ~ Word Sonnet
- 15 Lines ~ “By the Waters” ~ Compound Word Verse
- 16 Lines ~ “Eyewitness” ~ Domino Rhyme
- 17 Lines ~ “The Freedom to Live” ~ Lucubration
- 18 Lines ~ “The Spur of Love” ~ Rhyming Wave
- 19 Lines ~ “Soothing Sounds” ~ Terzanelle
- 20 Lines ~ “Bells Tolled High” ~ The Balance
- 21 Lines ~ “Art” ~ Diminishing Hexaverse
- 22 Lines ~ “By Design” ~ Chain of Abolition
- 23 Lines ~ “The Way Up” ~ Daisy Chain
- 24 Lines ~ “A Christmas Promise” ~ Couplet Chain
- 25 Lines ~ “I Was Not There” ~ Free Verse
- 26 Lines ~ “The Alphabet of Our Love” ~ Alpha Beta
- 27 Lines ~ “No Regrets” ~ Quintina
- 28 Lines ~ “Heaven’s Air” ~ Ballade Stanza
- 29 Lines ~ “The Charge” ~ Blind Rhyme/Hidden Rhyme
- 30 Lines ~ “Invasion” ~ Streambed’s Ripple
- 31 Lines ~ “Eat” ~ Monololiquie
- 32 Lines ~ “The Dreamer” ~ The Gemstone
- 33 Lines ~ “And I Still Dream” ~ Forlorn Suicide
- 34 Lines ~ “Duke” ~ Arkquain Swirl
- 35 Lines ~ “Traveling Thoughts” ~ Mad Cow
- 36 Lines ~ “Carry On” ~ Arkquain String
- 37 Lines ~ “Ham and Swiss on Rye” ~ Parallelismus Membrorum
- 38 Lines ~ “Together in the Distance” ~ Waltz Wave
- 39 Lines ~ “A Mob of Drops” ~ Sestina
- 40 Lines ~ “Hands That See” ~ Paulo Ludibrium Comitato
- 41 Lines ~ “Lost” ~ Dinggedicht or Object Poem
- 42 Lines ~ “Vulnerability” ~ The Stephens
- 43 Lines ~ “To Leave the Pain Behind” ~ Puente
- 44 Lines ~ “The Color of Sky” ~ Cyclone
- 45 Lines ~ “Secret Strength” ~ Okaloosa
- 46 Lines ~ “Anticipation” ~ Rhyming Wave
- 47 Lines ~ “Game” ~ Reversing Ripple
- 48 Lines ~ “When We First Embraced” ~ Terza Rima
- 49 Lines ~ “I Find You in the Stillness” ~ Tuanortsa
- 50 Lines ~ “Entwined” ~ Entwined
- 51 Lines ~ “Rainy Day” ~ Caccia
- 52 Lines ~ “Give Me Skies of Blue” ~ Septina
- 53 Lines ~ “Look and Live” ~ Didactic
- 54 Lines ~ “Magic Moments” ~ Paiku
- 55 Lines ~ “So Leaf Subsides” ~ Rhaiku
- 56 Lines ~ “Celebration” ~ Rubaiyat
- 57 Lines ~ “The Bigger Man” ~ Villanelle Chain
- 58 Lines ~ “Ramblings of a Lunatic” ~ Reverse Word
- 59 Lines ~ “Dreamers” ~ Cento
- 60 Lines ~ “Until Death” ~ Licentia Rhyme
- 61 Lines ~ “The Greatest Way to Learn” ~ Line Messaging
- 62 Lines ~ “No Greater Love” ~ Raccontino
- 63 Lines ~ “My Yellow Garden” ~ The Swinburne
- 64 Lines ~ “Teach Me to Wait” ~ A’larora
- 65 Lines ~ “” ~ Double Ballade Supreme
- 66 Lines ~ “” ~ Luc Bat
- 67 Lines ~ “” ~ Dinggedicht
- 68 Lines ~ “” ~ Ocarina
- 69 Lines ~ “Waiting” ~ Free Verse
- 70 Lines ~ “” ~ Argonelles
- 71 Lines ~ “” ~ Binyon Chain
- 72 Lines ~ “” ~ Cascade
- 73 Lines ~ “” ~ Atrina
- 74 Lines ~ “” ~ Forward/Backward Poetry
- 75 Lines ~ “” ~ Sydney’s Double Sestina
- 76 Lines ~ “” ~ English Ballet
- 77 Lines ~ “” ~ Augmented Monometric
- 78 Lines ~ “The Boy and His Dog” ~ Opie Poem
- 79 Lines ~ “” ~ Reversed Monometric
- 80 Lines ~ “” ~ Swinburn Decastich
- 81 Lines ~ “” ~ Lilibonelle
- 82 Lines ~ “” ~ Heroic Couplet Chain
- 83 Lines ~ “” ~ Spenserian Stanza with Heroic Couplet
- 84 Lines ~ “” ~ Novina
- 85 Lines ~ “” ~ Lucubration Chain
- 86 Lines ~ “” ~ Alpha Couplets
- 87 Lines ~ “” ~ Denturn with Crystalline
- 88 Lines ~ “” ~ Slide Ballad
- 89 Lines ~ “” ~ Monody
- 90 Lines ~ “” ~ Triple Streambed’s Ripple
- 91 Lines ~ “” ~ Rhyme Royal
- 92 Lines ~ “” ~ Trifrain
- 93 Lines ~ “” ~ Dixdeux
- 94 Lines ~ “” ~ Silva de Consonantes
- 95 Lines ~ “” ~ Blank Verse
- 96 Lines ~ “” ~ Lakelet
- 97 Lines ~ “” ~ Skeltonic Verse
- 98 Lines ~ “” ~ Triquain Chain
- 99 Lines ~ “” ~ Andaree
- 100 Lines ~ “” ~ Blitz
- 104 Lines ~ “” ~ Gregory’s Refrain
- 105 Lines ~ “” ~ Dectina
