Redundant Rondelet

For my creative writing class, I've been given a packet of quite a few different kinds of poems, and the assignment is to write my own using the decriptions and examples.

The Rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The capital letter are the refrains, or repeats. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic or dimeter and the other lines are twice as long �" octasyllabic or tetrameter.

 

Redundant Rondelet

Silence is violent

Sitting next to you it teases

Silence is violent

And surrounding your brain

Violence is silent

Author's Note

More practice (:

Reviews

[pasdepoisson]

This is interesting because I've often had the instinct of wanting to lash out violently because of too much silence, but I've never considered silence violence itself. Silence, I've assumed, is a void, inert and impassive. But what if silence is itself an attack on us, surrounding and suffocating?

[Chris Shaw]

Interesting thoughts. I have never considered silence as violent. Silence to me is thinking time. When I go quiet, that is when my brain is most active.

Chris

[I Am Svetlana]

Wow..."violence is silent" such a deep and powerful line. It made me think and I really admire your talent. Again, I am inspired. Thank you!

[r]

interesting read but a good one none the less... nice work

[Kelley]

You should write a book of these

[fireblossom]

Very interesting form. As a poet with very little training (one college writing class :-( ) these forms are very interesting and informative.