A good response to the last prompts with a few different ideas coming through - Well done everyone who participated.
Heres a bit of a new challenge for those who are interested - writing a Kyrielle sonnet
A Kyrielle Sonnet consists of 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain verse and a non-rhyming couplet). The Kyrielle Sonnet also has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza).
Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet consists of only eight syllables. French poetry forms have a tendency to link back to the beginning of the poem, so common practice is to use the first and last line of the first quatrain as the ending couplet. This would also re-enforce the refrain within the poem. Therefore, a good rhyming scheme for a Kyrielle Sonnet would be:
AabB, ccbB, ddbB, AB -or- AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.
Lets see what our poets can do with this - write on any subject you like - You up for it? Away you go then
