Tuesday, July 29, 2014

QUINZAINE

A quinzaine is a 3-line syllable-count structure containing only fifteen syllables.No meter or rhyme is required. Line 1 contains 7 syllables; line 2 has 5, and line 3 has 3. The first line makes a statement; lines 2 and 3 ask a question related to that statement. 

Example:
I'm a very strong woman (7 syllables)
Are you a woman? (5 syllables)
Are you strong? (3 syllables)

I apologize for this pitiful example.  It's the example given for the current quinzaine contest sponsored by Fanstory.  We can assume no title is required since their example has none. The deadline is midnight June 30, 2016..  The prize is $100.  The magazine is promising feedback to all who enter.  I'll be curious to see that.

Give it a whirl.

Here's another example to help you with quinzaine..

No reports come from the dead.
     Does that mean no life
     after death?



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