{"id":13091,"date":"2012-04-19T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=13091"},"modified":"2012-04-19T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T23:53:08","slug":"framed-couplets-poetry-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/04\/19\/framed-couplets-poetry-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting With Poetry Form (Framed Couplets)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while I like to experiment with a new (to me) poetry form.  Today, its the <a href=\"http:\/\/dversepoets.com\/2012\/04\/19\/formforall-framed-couplets\/\">framed couplet, explained in detail and illustrated over at dVerse by Gay Reiser Cannon.<\/a> (The main rules are:  9 syllable lines, the first syllable of each line is accented, and both the first and last syllable of each couplet line rhyme.) Here are my two attempts:<\/p>\n<p>The Quest<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Poetry and prose in fits and starts,<br \/>\nKnowing that my words can open hearts.<br \/>\nWriting&#8217;s daily challenge &#8212; must confront.<br \/>\nLight or heavy verse &#8212; I&#8217;m on the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Trying out new forms can lead the way,<br \/>\nPrying out the words I need to say,<br \/>\nFreeing up my brain and letting loose,<br \/>\nKeying into that which cuts my noose.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>The List<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Naming all the things that I must do.<br \/>\nBlaming times&#8217;s escape, when I do few.<br \/>\nToting up the items left undone.<br \/>\nNoticing my list is missing fun.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while I like to experiment with a new (to me) poetry form. Today, its the framed couplet, explained in detail and illustrated over at dVerse by Gay Reiser Cannon. (The main rules are: 9 syllable lines, the first syllable of each line is accented, and both the first and last syllable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1343,2866,1775,69],"tags":[2119,236,2737,5027,2865,2836,1796,5016,1166],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chores-humor","category-creativity-verse","category-framed-couplets","category-poetry-forms","category-writing-humor","tag-creative-prompts","tag-creativity","tag-dverse","tag-framed-couplets","tag-gay-reiser-cannon","tag-list-humor","tag-muse","tag-poetry-forms","tag-writing-publishing-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13096,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions\/13096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}