tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829168697372726752.post146840067556456452..comments2024-02-10T03:45:25.354-05:00Comments on Blogalicious: An Invented FormDiane Lockwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07614479152159652577noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829168697372726752.post-59295021480382781122010-12-01T10:35:44.886-05:002010-12-01T10:35:44.886-05:00In your December online newsletter, in the "G...In your December online newsletter, in the "Groovy Links" section, the Patterns of Poetry mini-lectures provide insights into repetition and sonnets by Shakespeare. Here's the link to the "Repetition" segment, only about five minutes long.<br />http://audioboo.fm/boos/199867-patterns-of-poetry-10-repetitionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829168697372726752.post-87907048189284053172010-11-28T13:39:53.646-05:002010-11-28T13:39:53.646-05:00Good detective work! Now I broke down and cleared ...Good detective work! Now I broke down and cleared off my kitchen table this morning and uncovered the very book that contains the prompt. None of the words you have listed is used in the instructions, though "transonym" seems applicable. I've now got the answers to my questions, but I think I'll withhold them for a while just in case someone else comes up with the answers.Diane Lockwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614479152159652577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-829168697372726752.post-64440830282025575772010-11-28T11:47:16.848-05:002010-11-28T11:47:16.848-05:00Diane, did the prompt or exercise appear on a poet...Diane, did the prompt or exercise appear on a poetry site or classroom teacher blog, etc.? or from a book of writing prompts?<br /><br />At the risk of giving you TMI "too much information" ;), I offer you now the results of my detective work on your mystery form:<br /><br />1) It's possible that the mystery form is directly related to Shakespeare, since the line you provided came from his sonnet. Shakespeare wrote sonnets that exhibit a single-word-repetition called, generally, "polyptoton." <br /><br />2) Kinds of single-word repetition include:<br />a) "ploce" or "epizeuxis" -- repeating the same word, same grammar, same meaning<br />b) "antanaclasis" -- same word, same grammar, different meaning<br />c) "polyptoton" -- same word, same meaning, different grammar<br />d) antanaclasis or polyptoton -- same word, different grammar, different meaning<br /><br />(The above information came from: The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics)<br /><br />3) This online Table of Forms suggests that the word "transnym" (sic? transonym?) refers to that single word which is repeated in every line of a poem --<br />http://www.spinelessbooks.com/table/tableofforms.html<br /><br />(I couldn't find this term in more mainstream poetry guides, so it may be nonce jargon peculiar to this particular Table of Forms.)<br /><br />Hope this info helps you in some small way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com