The Scholarly Wisps

The Scholarly Wisps is a dramatic poetic form, originating in The New Pick. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into two to three couplets and a septet.

• The first part is intended to describe the past. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. It has lines with three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic trimeter).
• The second part is intended to develop the previous idea concerning the future. The fifth line of the septet presents a different view of the subject of the second line. It has lines with four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic tetrameter).

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