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noble4d:
Are you not a poet?

OMA4U:
Seriously, Timpaker and noble4d's knowledge of poetry is amazing. I always sit to learn from you guys. Thank you for your contribution to poetry.

vonn:
I was here

noble4d:
no crime in revealing what is concealed in the heart..I could picture deeply, every word you wrote, be plain bro.

Now I'm a bit confuse .

noble4d:
No wonder wat?

The passion lit in your words..
Not everyone put effort into what they didn't study in full display and authority.
Kudos!

noble4d:
Not English

noble4d:
Haaaa i know my English is awful...

noble4d:
Do you write ballad? Its cool too.

Yeah.. I do.

you studied/studying English Language in school huh?

HARDDON:
stop playing ping pong dude!


We got less than 3days to spin some sexy strings

Resend d mail or I'd hv ur balls sieved n served to d streets !

**falls off the window**

noble4d:
yah sonnet is beautiful. most of my written poems are sonnets, and any poems with refrains e.g kyrielle and quatern.

mirrored and trijan refrain?

Yeah I love refrains too eg. Terzanelle and Villanelle (even though they can be quite tasking at times)
my fav.s are narrative e.g epic, cowboy, ABC, octavarima, terza/rima and other short forms, and that's cuz these forms takes time to write.

AmiableJay:
It's very easy bro.. I do mine by writing a large piece and then doing a strong cutting.

noble4d:
Yah ryt that's y I love sonnets and refrains

noble4d:
Why is it that even a single topic in the poetry section ( poems for review) has never grace the FP?...The poetry section is enrich with talented poet with interesting topics. Abeg mods do something about it.

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noble4d:
I don't know how you'll feel, but what you wrote is definitely not a sonnet. May be you are trying to write a quatern composed of 4 quatrains with 8 syllables per line and also has a refrain in different place in each quatrain. If the lines in quotations is not among the poem then its a sonnet...and looking at it with a noble eye, you disobeyed the law(s) in sonnet...The English sonnets has 10 syllables, Italian sonnets has 10 or 11 syllables, French sonnet has 12 syllables per line, and all with different rhyming pattern. I like the fact that you mixed modern and archaic words to portray your message...re-edit your work...thumbs up.

noble cares.

You're quite right bro. I didn't check the word count before terming it a 'sonnet', I only just checked the Shakespearian style he used and the iambic pentameters. (my bad )

The word count is what I hate most about it (sonnet).

But contemporary poets tend to flow with the rhyming i.e. ababcdcdefefgg; ababbcbccdcdee or 8 lines of abbaabba/octave and 6 sestet of cdcdcd (I think) scheme while ignoring the syllabic count which are mutually exclusive to separate genres of the sonnet.

I hope you understand moi?

Obinnau:
Truth be told, I have not been active as I used to, due to school stuff and funding. But I plead with literature folks to pls bear with me and give me some time and things will be back to normal. Thanks.

noble4d:
Hahahahahahaahahahahaha Bro,the diamante was invented 40 years ago by an American poet "Iris McClellan Tiedt" in 1969. What you wrote was an archaic form of diamante though, some still right it that way...Anyways, Thumbsup.

noble4d:
Yah its suppose to be in diamond shape but NL platform does not support that.

As for your input, line 4 should be a short phrase about line 1, and a short phrase about line 7. Just edit it, thumbs up

You may be right bro but from what I have read about a Diamente is that, the purpose is to go from the subject at the top of the diamond or lozenge to another totally different (and sometimes opposite) subject at the bottom written in seven lines of diamond shape.

i.e.

The First line - a word (NOUN) - A
Second line - two ADJECTIVES - A
Third line - three GERUNDS-A (verb + -ing)
Fourth line - two NOUNS-A + two NOUNS-B
Fifth line - three GERUNDS-B (verb + -ing)
Sixth line - two ADJECTIVES-B and
Seventh - One NOUN - B


http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/diamante-poems-30053.html

This is the Diamente I know designed by Iris Tiedt, the one you talking about should be the old school Diamente cuz mine is the new school

Emzypaz:
Exactly me point. But I believe you and I with some other like minded people can change things.