The Lute of Pantomimes

The Lute of Pantomimes is a reflective poetic form concerning a historical figure, originating in The Pulley of Strategies. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a line, a tercet and another two tercets. Use of metaphor and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form.

• The first part is intended to express pleasure with the subject of the poem. It has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic trimeter).
• The second part is intended to develop the previous idea. Certain lines reverse grammatical structures. The third line of the tercet must expand the idea of the second line. It has lines with two feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic dimeter).
• The third part is intended to move away from previous ideas. The second line of each tercet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The second line of each tercet must expand the idea of the first line. It has lines with three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic trimeter).

Events