Mistress Bradstreet Stanza: Poetic Forms
Mistress Bradstreet Stanza: Poetic Forms Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the Mistress Bradstreet stanza, an invented form of John Berryman. Author: I found this week's poetic form tucked away in John Drury's The Poetry Dictionary (between the Fibonacci and paradelle). In it, he cites John Berryman as the inventor of the form. In fact, click here to read Berryman's "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet." Eight-line stanza Rhyme scheme: ***** Play with poetic forms! Poetic forms are fun poetic games, and this digital guide collects more than 100 poet...
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