Le Voyage Magnifique

Form: Tricube
Unlike interlocking rubaiyat, the tricube is a newer form and relatively unknown. Plus, it’s fun and easy to learn. This mathematical poem was introduced by Phillip Larrea.

Number of Lines: 9

Rules:
Each line contains three syllables.
Each stanza contains three lines.
Each poem contains three stanzas.

Rhyme Scheme:
none required

Example:

resist

i avoid
dead end streets
like the plague

because i
don’t enjoy
backtracking

but the plague
is a street
with no end

© Robert Lee Brewer

The Villanelle is a nineteen line poem with a very tight pattern of rhyme and repetition, as described and demonstrated in the following link: https://poets.org/glossary/villanelle .

The Musette is an exercise in language compression devised by Emily Romano. The structure consists of three stanzas with three lines per stanza. In each stanza, the first and third lines have two syllables and the second line has four syllables. The first and third lines also rhyme, as demonstrated in the following links:

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/musette.html

http://www.rainbowcommunications.org/velvet/forms/Musette.pdf .

The Triquatrain is a four line stanza with alternating internal rhymes and end rhymes, as described and demonstrated in the following link: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/triquatrain.html

Although this source credits Robert L. Huntsman with creating the form, I question that attribution. While his examples were copyrighted in 2006, Edgar Allan Poe used the same pattern in the first four lines in each stanza of The Raven, which was published on September 25, 1849: https://poets.org/poem/raven .

The Sedoka is a Japanese form consisting of two stanzas with three unrhymed lines per stanza and a line structure of 5, 7, 7 syllables in each stanza, as described and demonstrated in the following link: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/sedoka.html .