Night breathes

A decima is an early 10-line Spanish poetic form, with a distinct break after the first 4. It uses an 8-syllable line and has an unusual but characteristic rhyme scheme.

The decima must follow this rhyme pattern: A/B/B/A (pause) A/C/C/D/D/C and consists of ten lines of 8 syllables–it is here that the form becomes complex:
o When a line or verse ends in with a word with an emphasized syllable, this counts as an extra syllable.
o When a verse or line ends with a word with its emphasized syllable being the antepenultimate one, one syllable is subtracted from the count for the line.
o When a word ends with a vowel and is followed by a word beginning with a vowel, in the Spanish language these flow together, so it counts as only one syllable.
o When a strong vowel (a, o, e) is combined in a word with a weak vowel (i or u) and the emphasis is on the weak vowel, an accent is placed over the weak vowel and it is counted as a separate syllable.

Dancing feet

24 Tuesday Jan 2012

Posted by S Basu in poems, shardoma

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When lord shiva dances

23 Monday Jan 2012

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The first line is a monosyllabic word; the second line has two syllables, and so on, until the tenth line with, ultimately, ten syllables.

Peony fairies

22 Sunday Jan 2012

Posted by S Basu in poems, rispetto

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It was an early dawn of spring
peonies were blooming everywhere
spring breeze was dancing and kissing
those sweet cheeks here and there
fairies were hiding so coyly
one could hear them giggle sweetly
hidden behind those pretty petals
softly stirring tender petals.

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crimson

21 Saturday Jan 2012

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First crimson streak from Apollo’s paint brush
Rapidly covered the eastern sky in strokes
Broken strokes of red, pink, purple, blue
Adorned the sky, ebony some seconds ago
Then his eyes zeroed on earth below
He tickled and woke up the birds
Then painted lakes, hills and rivers crimson

The Kwansaba is a non-rhyming form that consists of seven lines of seven words per line and each word cannot include more than seven letters unless it’s a proper noun. It’s based on Kwanzaa, the African American holiday that celebrates seven principles

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