seasonal

[cidermaid]

(Whole poem at bottom of page 1)
I intend to now start editing this poem.
I will dismantle the individual poems and post them in the mild section, before i reassemble it.

Form reminders
Luc bat is a 6 / 8 line, alternating syllable count. Rhyme appears in 3’s
OOOOOO
OOOOOOOO
OOOOOO
OOOOOOOO
OOOOOO
OOOOOOOO
Pattern repeats through the poem (as long as you like) then last 6 & 8 loop back in connected rhyme to first 6. (as above shown in bold italics).

Sestina is a 39 line poem consisting of 6 x 6 line stanza (6 sestets + 1 terset) Consistent, but any length line. The last words of the first six lines (in the 1st sestet) are repeated in different order for subsequent sestets. (I havn't done the iambic element of this form as I the site I looked it up on didn't mention this and I've only just read this on a different site...so not sure which is correct)


1 2 3 4 5 6 - End words of lines in first sestet.
6 1 5 2 4 3 - End words of lines in second sestet.
3 6 4 1 2 5 - End words of lines in third sestet.
5 3 2 6 1 4 - End words of lines in fourth sestet.
4 5 1 3 6 2 - End words of lines in fifth sestet.
2 4 6 5 3 1 - End words of lines in sixth sestet.
(6 2) (1 4) (5 3)

...And of course the Haiku which Billy instructs us on in this thread.