VIGNETTES

VIGNETTE FORM  Vignette=a 5 line light verse that tells a short story

an example

BILKO

In the base motor pool

See an off-limits card school-

A scheming Bilko takes the pot

Hoodwinking top brass was his game,

Fast talking his claim to fame. 

In poetry, the vignette (a micro poem -- not under the poetic options here on Poetry Soup.com) is formatted in open form and left untitled. It can include several short stanzas. For multiple vignettes (on the same theme) each should be labelled by a number or a letter, most commonly by Roman numerals. It does not necessarily employ metre or rhyme. This might well be the answer to those poets who favour writing haiku in rhymes. Then there is ‘The Vignette’, an invented syllabic verse form introduced by Fozari Rockwood, found in Pathways for the Poet, by Viola Berg, 1977. The Vignette is an untitled, unrhymed, hexastich poem in 6 lines: 2-4-4-6-7-3 syllables per line.