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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

July 1, 2021 at 10:17 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

July 1, 2021 at 10:47 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’.

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