Saturday, June 1, 2013

Day 336:
June 1-Almost done with the year! Even now, there are those who can’t see how a poet can write over 12,000 poems. Let’s try some more math. Ate the end of this year, 365 poems will be written. Since more than one has been written for years, let’s multiply by 10 years, 3,650. If a poem a day is written for 30 years, that is around 11,000, and for 40 years, that makes over 14,000. So it is possible for a poet to pen plenty of poems. Enough said, now to a form called a Mirror sestet, created by Shelley Cephas. 6 lines, which can be rhymed or not-rhymed. Each couplet in the stanza basically is reversed. The first word rhymes with the last word in the line, then the last word becomes the first word on the following line, and the last word is the first word from the line before. If un-rhymed, the last word in the line simply is the first word in the next line. Phrases? However many you want.

Hey, the mirror sestet has its’ say.
Say you have a first word like, hey!
Reverse the first and last using verse.
Verse is used going in reverse.
Six lines per stanza, what a fix!
Fix couplets together by six.

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