Stephen Fry

The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within

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  • b7808952259has quoted3 years ago
    form’s derivations from, and yearnings towards, music
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    The usual rhyme scheme is ababbabA ababbabA ababbabA babA
  • b7808952259has quoted3 years ago
    these days an eight-line stanza with an envoi of four lines seems to have been settled upon by English-language poets.
  • b7808952259has quoted3 years ago
    Each stanza, the envoi included, ends with the same refrain or rentre
  • b7808952259has quoted3 years ago
    ends with an envoi which, tradition dictates, must be addressed to a Prince.
  • b7808952259has quoted3 years ago
    difficulty arises, not from any complexity of patterning or repetition such as is to be found in the sestina, but from the number of rhyme sounds needed.
  • b7808952259has quoted3 years ago
    a venerable French form of some fiendishness for English poets
  • b7808952259has quoted3 years ago
    art, as with other lexically repetitive and patterned schemes, is to choose ‘open-ended’ repeating lines allowing ambiguity and room for manoeuvre.
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    Note that enjambment and some flexibility with the repeated lines is helpful in refreshing the mood of the piece
  • b7808952259has quoted3 years ago
    effect, as my example suggests, can be quite hypnotic or doom-laden.
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