Roundabout

[Tinker]

The Roundabout is another invented form introduced to me by Dave Schnieder at Writing.com found in a blog at Poetry Asides where apparently a forms challenge is offered every Wednesday.  The verse form was created by Sara Diane Doyle in collaboration with one of her students, David Edwards.  The elements of the Roundabout are:

1. stanzaic, a poem written in 4 quintains.
2. metric, iambic L1 tetrameter, L2 trimeter, L3-L4 dimeter, and L5 trimeter.
3. rhymed, turned on only 4 rhymes for the entire poem abccb bcddc cdaad dabba
4. L2 of each stanza is repeated as L5 of the same stanza.
   
   Roundabout  
   
   Her student asked her how to write
   poetic form that's new
   start with a beat
   a rhythm neat
   poetic form that's new
   
   And then create a room or two
   no more than four, complete
   number of lines
   within confines
   no more than five, complete
   
   Now to marry rhyme so sweet
   the moving link aligns
   the sound not sight
   will make it right
   the moving link aligns
   
   Repeating lines we will assign
   The verse will reach its height
   don't overdo
   just take my queue
   the verse will reach its height
                    ~~Judi Van Gorder

 

[Tinker]

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