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  1. Tinker

    Rubliw

    Explore the Craft of Writing Light Verse The Rubliw is an invented form created by American poet Richard Wilbur then named and defined by Lewis Turco, author of The Book of Forms among other works. A short metric poem was sent by Wilbur to Turco containing a challenge to name the verse form framing the poem. Turco responded in kind and named the form by reversing the spelling of Wilbur's name. He also wrote humorous, didactic messages in the same form to fellow poets Dana Gioia and Sam Gwynn. The Rubliw as created would fall under the category of Light Verse. The elements of the Rubliw are: a poem in 9 lines. metric, iambic pattern, L1 monometer, L2 dimeter, L3 trimeter, L4 tetrameter, L5 pentameter, L6 tetrameter, L7 trimeter, L8 dimeter and L9 monometer. mono-rhymed. I found the following in an Essay by Lewis Turco: Dear Lew All hail to you, Old formalist, who through Your Book of Forms inform the new If you can name this bloody form, please do, before it disappears from view, For you're the one man who Might manage to. Adieu. ---Richard Wilbur Rubliw For Richard Wilbur Dear Dick, It's quite a trick To name the form poetic You sent Sam Gwynn who, in the nick Of time, included it in his panegyric Celebrating my arthritic Remove from the academic, But rubliw's a quick Kick. ---Lewis Turco RUBLIW FOR DANA GIOIA Dear Dan- a, in the main, A rubliw is a skein Of monorhymes making a chain To this point that's formally a cinquain, But then the lines, like a train Losing cars, refrain And start to wane Again. ---Lewis Turco And that's how verse forms are born!
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