Three Poems

Hello friends,

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This week, three ‘aelinscapes’.

An aelinscape is a metered poem in which two or more formal poems share meterical feet. The form (or group of forms) first appeared in my collection SLATE PETALS.

This first aelinscape presents an ottava rima in iambic pentameter, intersected by a sonnet in iambic monometer:

This second aelinscape presents a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic monometer, intersected by a triolet in iambic pentameter:

And finally, this third aelinscape presents an ottava rima in iambic pentameter (Moon), sharing the first foot of each line with a monometer Spenserian sonnet (Sun) and the last foot of each line with a hybrid Shakespearean-Petrarchan sonnet (Stars):