History: The Cascade is an invented/new form created in 2007 by Udit Bhatia. Structure: this form turns on refrains: it takes each line of the first stanza, and makes it the last line of each successive stanza other than that, there are no further rules, in terms of rhyme, meter, etc. Can be as long...Read More

History: Created by award-winning poet Pravat Kumar Padhy in 2022 by fusing a haiku and a tanka. Structure: thematically, explores nature and human aspects like love, emotion etc, aiming overall to portray “a broader manifestation of coherency of the images juxtaposition keeping in view the aspect of ‘link and shift’ within the framework of the...Read More

History: What’s currently considered the “English Madrigal”, that being, according to semi-common agreement and put in print by Lewis Turco, an Italian madrigal form given more strict English language rules by Geoffrey Chaucer, is in actuality a variation of the Rondel. It is mistaken for a madrigal variation on occasion because of the similarities between...Read More

History The French Rondel is a mideaval French verse form related to the triolet and rondeau, invented in the 14th century and popularized by Charles d’Orleans. Sort of. Like the terms roundel and rondeau, the term rondel in the Middle Ages did not apply to one fixed form but to a “round” song with a refrain...Read More

The Gogyohka is a modern Japanese form developed by Enta Kusakabe in 1957. Based on the Tanka and Kodai kayo, Gogyohka literally translates into 5-line poem.  The rules of the Gogyohka are seemingly very simple. The stanza is 5 lines, and each line is its own phrase. What is considered a phrase, however, is what...Read More

Historia La décima es básicamente una composición poética de diez versos octosílabos. En forma de canción, la décima trovada, consiste de cuarenta y cuatro versos que incluyen una primera estrofa de cuatro versos y cuatro subsiguientes estrofas de diez versos que glosan la primera estrofa, terminando cada una de estas cuatro estrofas en un verso...Read More

History: The Andaree is a contemporary “invented” form created by Andrea Dietrich on the website PoetrySoup in Feb, 2015. Structure: syllable count of 11-9-7-5-3-1-3-5-7-9-11 rhyme scheme of AabbcbcbbaA Line 1 is repeated in line 11 the poem is to be centered Source: https://www.poetrysoup.com/poetry/contests/andaree_-_11_lines_13753Read More

History: Knittelvers, also Knüttelvers or Knittel, can be traced back to Otfrid of Weissenburg “who, using Latin verse as a model, introduced couplets into German verse in the 9th century. From the Middle High German knittel meaning “rhyme”, but also knütte or keule meaning “club” because of it’s clumsy, irregular rhythm. Knittelvers was originally a German verse measure from...Read More

History: According to A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics by Margaret Clunies Ross, The Hrynhent (‘flowing-rhymed) is widely attributed to Arnórr Þórðarson jarlaskáld, but the claim that he invented or at the very least was the first to use the form is up for debate. However, most agree that his Hrynhenda, written c. 1045, is...Read More

History: A type of epigram invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), who introduced it in Biography for Beginners (1905) and continued it in More Biography (1929) and Baseless Biography (1939). Structure: quatrain (four lines) poem of varying length lines of irregular length dipodic meter (two feet, meaning two stresses, per line) rhyming aabb the first line...Read More