by Gowri Bhargav | Dec 11, 2025 | Poetic Styles, Poetry
The Villanelle is a 19 line poem known for its repeated lines that act as refrains. It consists of five tercets and a quatrain (6 stanzas in total). The first and the third line of the first tercet appear as the refrains throughout the poem in a structured manner. The...
by Gowri Bhargav | Dec 4, 2025 | Poetic Styles, Poetry
To attempt the Alliterisen poetic style, it is important to be familiar with alliteration first. Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a sentence. Alliteration provides an element of music to speech,...
by Gowri Bhargav | Nov 26, 2025 | Poetic Styles, Poetry
Poetry that doesn’t follow any strict rhyme scheme or meter is called free verse. Free verse encompasses a wide range of poetic devices and also allows the poets to have the complete freedom to improvise and be creative in constructing their poems. The poems can...
by Gowri Bhargav | Nov 21, 2025 | Flash Fiction, Stories
The café wafted with the fragrance of freshly brewed coffee. I picked up my order and settled into a cozy nook. I sipped my drink, fully engrossed in a book. “PJ?!” Your baritone voice jolted me, and I was struck by your eyes that gleamed like topaz. “Yes, I’m PJ,...
by Gowri Bhargav | Nov 20, 2025 | Poetic Styles, Poetry
Dizain is a French poem that became a favourite of many 15th and 16th century French poets. However this style was also employed in English by John Keats. Here are the basic rules of the dizain: 1) It has a one ten-line stanza. 2) There are 10 syllables per line. 3)...
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