Monday, Nov. 26: Forms Week

* Open
* Notes
  • Triolet: Definition: An eight-line stanza having just two rhymes and repeating the first line as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth  (The Poetry Foundation).
  • More Examples
  • A most challenging test of excellence in a poem featuring repetition is meaning: does the repetition add to and actually develop or change something?  That's not easy; here's a good example from Thomas Hardy.   
* Return papers

* Finish J11

* Do Grammar Sheet #3 (Schwager) or #4 (Reno)

* Work on your CWP

* For Fun: Can you compose a triolet?

HW: Work on your CWP

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