ABSENTMINDEDNESS
A Terzanelle Poem
I have this secret to share:
she cannot find her glasses.
I know exactly where
and as time passes
she’ll find them again.
She cannot find her glasses
she has a mixed-up brain.
She is so absent-minded.
She’ll find them again,
they’re actually on her head!
She can keep secrets:
she is so absent-minded,
but she never forgets
where she’s hidden her wine.
She can keep secrets
I will not keep mine.
I have this secret to share:
where she’s hidden her wine
I know exactly where.
Extract from writersdigest.com 2015 April PAD Challenge, day 2:- Terzanelle Poetic Form
What do you get when you mix two super popular Italian poetic forms, specifically the terza rima and villanelle? The terzanelle, of course!
It combines the lyricism of the terza rima with the repetition of the villanelle to make a powerful one-two punch in only 19 lines. The traditional stance on the terzanelle is that the lines should be written in a consistent iambic meter, but there are plenty of contemporary terzanelles that just aspire to keep the lines a consistent length throughout.
Here’s the rhyme and refrain order for the Terzanelle:
A1
B
A2
b
C
B
c
D
C
d
E
D
e
F
E
f
A1
F
A2
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