B - Brazilian Haiku and Blitz Poetry
Brazilian Haiku has the 5/7/5 syllables of Japanese haiku, but it rhymes in a pattern of xxxxa xbxxxxb xxxxa Mud April arrived wet The puddles gave way to mud The dampest spring yet The Blitz is an invented form by Robert Keim composed of 50 tediously long lines in 25 couplets. Lines are short, but at least two words (except lines 49 and 50, which will be one word), and unrhymed. It is meant to be read as a rush of phrases. After writing several of these I decided that I think they are pretty much a waste of my time. I just don't "get" the point, or see the poetry in them. Maybe you do... I also think they are much too long for what they are; they go on and on and on! The only thinking needed ("thinking" for after all, they are meant to be short bursts of thought) is to plan the ends of lines 47 and 48 so the last lines make sense. It also helps for lines 3 and 47 to so...