Helpful guidelines

How do you write a Tritina?

How do you write a Tritina?

In a Tritina:

  1. The lines are grouped into three tercets and a concluding line.
  2. Lines may be of any length.
  3. The three words that end each of the lines of the first stanza are repeated in a different order at the end of lines in each of the subsequent two stanzas.
  4. The repeated words are unrhymed.

What is a poem with 21 lines called?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

What is the hardest type of poem to write?

The Ghazal. The Ghazal (apparently pronounced ‘guzzle’) is an Arabic form dating back to the 7th-century. On the surface, it doesn’t seem terribly complex. A ghazal consists of couplets somewhere between five and fifteen stanzas long with a rhyme scheme of aa, ba, ca, da, and so on.

What is a poem with 19 lines called?

The villanelle is a specific poetic form that uses repeated lines and a strict rhyming pattern throughout its 19 lines, which are grouped into six separate stanzas. Villanelles have a lyrical quality to them, creating a song-like poem with their structured lines.

What makes a tritina a good form?

The repetition of words in a Tritina makes this form a good match for a story that uses common speech, for in conversation the repetition of key words is common.

How do I write a tritina poem?

I recommend concrete nouns (e.g., chimney, lozenge) and active verbs (e.g., opens). Alternatively, begin by writing a 3-line poem that you want to expand into a Tritina. Reorganize that tercet if that helps put interesting words on the ends of lines.

How many lines does a tritina have?

Thus a Tritina has 10 lines. Lines may be of any length. Their length is usually consistent in a single poem. The three words that end each of the lines of the first stanza are repeated in a different order at the end of lines in each of the subsequent two stanzas. The particular pattern is given below.

How to check if tritina’s pattern is still in order?

Double-check the pattern of repeated words. You should find that the Tritina’s pattern is still in order (even though a different word is now word “1”, etc.) for all the tercets.