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Ottava Rima
How do you write it? An Ottava Rima is a poem composed of eight lines that have an ababababcc rhyme scheme for the first stanza, and dededeff for the next, the rhyme scheme keeps going down the alphabet until you can no longer rhyme. Each line should contain either 10 or 11 syllables. You can make a single octive (eight line stanza) or multiple, it's up to you. In these eight lines attempt to make a coherent story, it can be fiction or non-fiction. If you do not understand how to create it from my description try checking out the rules on this website: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/ottavarima.html I will post an example for reference.
Ended May 15, 2021 • 3 Entries • Created by Wilmer
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Ottava Rima
How do you write it? An Ottava Rima is a poem composed of eight lines that have an ababababcc rhyme scheme for the first stanza, and dededeff for the next, the rhyme scheme keeps going down the alphabet until you can no longer rhyme. Each line should contain either 10 or 11 syllables. You can make a single octive (eight line stanza) or multiple, it's up to you. In these eight lines attempt to make a coherent story, it can be fiction or non-fiction. If you do not understand how to create it from my description try checking out the rules on this website: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/ottavarima.html I will post an example for reference.

Historia

Adrift patrolling lost metropolis,

Truth speakers, molotov flingers, pyre blaze

Guides, frontier away from necropolis,

Sects at play, corporate council assays

Rotting republic,freedom nebulous,

Borders plentiful, robes royal displays

Revealing defeat unknown, a beacon,

Far north lights burn, chaos does not weaken.

Astro travelling murder bound, no sound,

4 a.m. streetlights warp as I pass by,

Worn eyes dilate, strangers inbound, background

Electric,skyscrapers eclectic, sly

Spy eccentric,soon I’ll leave, there, nearby

Where truth speakers lie, escape underground,

Hypersonic trains awake, now farewell

Historia, tortured gem, boosters yell.

Through mute realms I trek passing time worn fools,

Youthless Ark ventures forth, warring kids clash,

Heirs of rotten legacies,feasting ghouls

Unleashed like murderous pups, city ash

Reaches bountiful frontiers, new jewels

Prosper without you, your future their cache,

Out I go seeking a better mission,

In time they battle, a lost transmission.

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Ottava Rima
How do you write it? An Ottava Rima is a poem composed of eight lines that have an ababababcc rhyme scheme for the first stanza, and dededeff for the next, the rhyme scheme keeps going down the alphabet until you can no longer rhyme. Each line should contain either 10 or 11 syllables. You can make a single octive (eight line stanza) or multiple, it's up to you. In these eight lines attempt to make a coherent story, it can be fiction or non-fiction. If you do not understand how to create it from my description try checking out the rules on this website: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/ottavarima.html I will post an example for reference.

He is broken, busted, lying in pieces

Not even resembling the man he was

Threw it all away, gave in to caprices

Allowed his life to halt, coming to a pause

As time and meaning for him just ceases

He pulls away from his love, he withdraws

He says ‘Goodbye, I’m leaving you with our girl’

‘She’ll someday be like you, pretty as a pearl’

His lover cries, forlorn and forsaken

‘Where have I missed it; I thought I did so well?’

‘Now he leaves us; with him I was mistaken’

‘So soon he left, like the tolling of a bell’

‘Not letting this beat me, I’ll stand unshaken’

‘Act as one under an amnesia spell’

‘I will not mourn, nor remember his deed’

’Just work hard, so that we will in life succeed

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