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A POETIC FORM
One of the greatest things about formal poetry is the attention that the authors must give
to language in order to express themselves within the structure of the given form. A formal poem
is one that the author shapes specifically to adhere to a specific stucture or structural element, for
example, rhyme and meter schemes of sonnets, the chorusing of the six methodically rearranged
end-words throughout the six sestets and one quatrain of the sestina, the chorusing lines of the
villanelle. I offer a villanelle of my own as an example:
Cleanse
The small contorted cat licked its anus
for more than an hour last night
amidst our crowd. The cat entertained us
in a manner so twisted and heinous.
By the pale flicker of a white moon's light,
the small contorted cat licked its anus.
Yes, we laughed until such laughing drained us,
for scarcely before, dull boredom hung slight
amidst our crowd. The cat entertained us
because inability restrained us
from doing the same (imagine that sight.)
The small contorted cat licked its anus.17
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McConnell, Michael Constantine. Outer Reaches of the Palindrome, thesis, December 2003; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4407/m1/20/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .