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  bullet   The 7/5 Trochee
  bullet   A L'Arora
  bullet   Alliterisen
  bullet   The Alouette
  bullet   The Blitz Poem
  bullet   The Brevette
  bullet   Cascade
  bullet   Christ-in-a-Rhyme
  bullet   CinqTroisDecaLa
  bullet   Clarity Pyramid
  bullet   Constanza
  bullet   Con-Verse
  bullet   The Compound Word Verse
  bullet   Decuain
  bullet   Diatelle
  bullet   Duo-rhyme
  bullet   Epulaeryu
  bullet   Essence
  bullet   The Florette
  bullet   The Florette #2
  bullet   Grá Reformata
  bullet   Jeffreys Sonnet
  bullet   Joseph's Star
  bullet   Harrisham Rhyme
  bullet   HexSonnetta
  bullet   Inverted Refrain
  bullet   LaCharta
  bullet   LaJemme
  bullet   La'libertas
  bullet   Lannet
  bullet   La'ritmo
  bullet   La’Tuin
  bullet   Lauranelle
  bullet   Lento
  bullet   Licentia Rhyme Form
  bullet   Line Messaging
  bullet   Loop Poetry
  bullet   Mini-monoverse
  bullet   Memento
  bullet   The Mirror Sestet
  bullet   Mirrored Refrain
  bullet   Monchielle
  bullet   Monotetra
  bullet   Musette
  bullet   Nove Otto
  bullet   Octameter
  bullet   Octain Refrain
  bullet   Octelle
  bullet   Oddquain
  bullet   Paradelle
  bullet   Parallelogram de Crystalline
  bullet   The Pictorial
  bullet   Pleiades
  bullet   Puente
  bullet   Quadrilew
  bullet   RemyLa Rhyme Form
  bullet   Rictameter
  bullet   Shadow Sonnet
  bullet   Spirit’s Vessel
  bullet   Staccato
  bullet   Swap Quatrain
  bullet   Synchronicity
  bullet   The Tableau
  bullet   Tri-fall
  bullet   Trijan Refrain
  bullet   Trilonnet
  bullet   Trinet
  bullet   Triquain
  bullet   Triquatrain
  bullet   Triquint
  bullet   Trois-par-Huit
  bullet   Trolaan
  bullet   Vers Beaucoup
  bullet   Villonnet
  bullet   Wrapped Refrain
  bullet   Wrapped Refrain #2
  bullet   ZaniLa Rhyme
 

Oddquain

Oddquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of seventeen syllables distributed 1, 3, 5, 7, 1 in five lines, developed by Glenda L. Hand.

Oddquain variations:

oddquain sequences - poems made up of oddquain stanzas

crown oddquains - a five stanza oddquain sequence

reverse oddquains - a oddquain with a reverse syllable pattern of 1-7-5-3-1

mirror oddquains - a two stanza oddquain sequence of the pattern 1-3-5-7-1 1-7-5-3-1

oddquain butterflies - a “merged mirror oddquain” where the two stanzas of a mirror oddquain are merged together, one of the middle 1 syllable lines is dropped, resulting in one nine line stanza of the form 1-3-5-7-1-7-5-3-1. Please note that a oddquain butterfly is not a “oddquain” because it doesn’t have five lines, but it is “butterfly” made up of two oddquains that were merged together into one poem.


Example #1:
Autumn

Fall
leaves floating
downward, spiral dance 
of joy begun, welcoming
fall. 

Copyright © 2006 Glenda L. Hand

Example #2:
September 11, 2006

Hope
remains after disaster 
bonding together
past the pain.
Love

Copyright © 2006 Glenda L. Hand

Example #3:
Cards

Cards
Game of chance
Can be played alone
As a game of solitaire
Deal

Copyright © 2006 Cynthia Kay Armstrong

Example #4:
Change of Seasons (Mirror Oddquain)

Breeze
bites with cold
bitter now after 
summer's warmth has fled away--
fall
breeze
spirals gold and red leaves
mixed into colored 
carpet, new
day. 

Copyright © 2006 Glenda L. Hand

Example #5:
Celebration (Butterfly Oddquain)

Child 
dances in
September's swirl  of
leaves, golden colors form her
skirt
of dazzling freedom, twirling 
into the final
fall to earth's
arms

Copyright © 2006 Glenda L. Hand

Example #6:
At Last I’ve Let Go (Crown Oddquain)

Love
happiness
once full of colour
now shards of disappointment
~fool~

Prized
feelings crushed
beneath tumbled words
washed out with twilight raindrops 
~gone~

Pause 
for much thought
and straightforwardness
shilly-shallying cut short
~stop~ 

A 
colourful
chalk, smudged to nothing
curtain call on future dreams
~lost~


The 
scented rains
that watered my soul
 no longer wreaks disorder
~glad~ 

Copyright © 2006 Claire Litchfield


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