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Spring Progression

Snow No mo' Adios On the Left Coast Good old Vancouver Sunshine doth improve 'er Magic in the air this day A new spring but few hours away Winter’s exiles repatriating Flora and fauna be celebrating

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Suzette Richards

Date: 7/1/2021 10:17:00 AM

Hi, Anthony. I saw this link on the New Forms. Congrats! It is reminiscent of 'Rhopalism'. A rhopalic sentence is one in which each successive word is one letter longer than the previous one. In poetry: where each word is one syllable (beat) longer, or it might increase each line in a stanza by one syllable, or a metric foot. I like the way you have incorporated a rhyme scheme.You might like my example in mono-rhyme: The Coward. I think that a reverse rhopalic verse would work just as well.

Suzette Richards
Date: 7/1/2021 10:47:00 PM

BTW This form of constrained writing is as old as the hills. Rhopalic (also ropalic: Origin Late 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas Browne (1605–1682), physician and author. From post-classical Latin rhopalicus (adjective) (of a line or passage of verse) in which each word contains one syllable more than the one immediately preceding it (3rd century) from ancient the Greek word meaning ‘cudgel thicker towards one end’.