Incremental Poetry

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 ~ “A Walk in the Woods” ~ Double Ballade Supreme
66 Lines ~ “I Cannot Fear Death” ~ Mathnawi
67 Lines ~ “Lost Twice” ~ Dinggedicht
68 Lines ~ “Figures in the Snow” ~ Ocarina
69 Lines ~ “Waiting” ~ Free Verse
70 Lines ~ “The Cynic and the Sage” ~ Argonelles
71 Lines ~ “So Long” ~ Atarlis Fileata
72 Lines ~ “Winter’s Storm” ~ Cascade
73 Lines ~ “Love Story” ~ Atrina
74 Lines ~ “Nothing New” ~ Forward/Backward Poetry
75 Lines ~ “Redemption” ~ Sydney’s Double Sestina
76 Lines ~ “I Didn’t Know” ~ English Ballet
77 Lines ~ “Experimental Poetry” ~ Augmented Monometric
78 Lines ~ “The Boy and His Dog” ~ Opie Poem
79 Lines ~ “From Beginning to End” ~ Reversed Monometric
80 Lines ~ “Still Waiting on That Book” ~ Swinburn Decastich
81 Lines ~ “Thank God for the Sun” ~ Lilibonelle
82 Lines ~ “My Only Praise” ~ Heroic Couplet Chain
83 Lines ~ “Popcorn” ~ 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

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