Showing posts with label rictameter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rictameter. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Caress...The Rictameter





Rictameter is a scheme similar to Cinquain. Starting your first line with a two syllable word, you then consecutively increase the number of syllables per line by two. i.e. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and then down again, 8, 6, 4, 2 making the final line the same two syllable word you used to begin.

The Rictameter

Caress
Perfect measure
Of pleasure and torment
Where the converging, not of skin
But of kinship in the meeting of minds
Nurtures sanguine satisfaction
While spawning desire
For its mystic
Caress

© Janet Martin

Poetic Bloomings invites us to try the rictameter form.