ChooseYourMeter/NotYourRimeScheme
Poetry Contest
Choose your own genre/topic.
One stanza; twelve lines.
Rime scheme: ABCDEFABCDEF
Left-aligned.
Between three and five metrical feet per line; each line containing the same number of metrical feet. Identify the number of metrical feet and the type of metrical foot you choose in the author notes.
Choose from one of the following type of metrical feet:
pyrrus/dibrach
iamb
trochee/choree
spondee
tribrach
dactyl
amphibrach
anapest/antidactylus
bacchius
antibacchius
cretic/amphimacer
molossus
tetrabrach/proceleusmatic
primus paeon
secundus paeon
tertius paeon
quartus paeon
major ionic/double trochee
minor ionic/double iamb
ditrochee
diamb
choriamb
antispast
first epitrite
second epitrite
third epitrite
fourth epitrite
dispondee
The contest winner will win half of the prize pool which is based on the number of entries. The second and third place winners will each share the remaining prize pool. The prize pool is currently 50.00 member dollars. There are 13 spots still open. If all open spots are used the prize pool will be 180.00 member dollars. In this contest at least 5 submissions must be made for the vote to begin.
Deadline: Contest is closed. Deadline was Wednesday, January 14, 2009.
Full Contest Listing
One stanza; twelve lines.
Rime scheme: ABCDEFABCDEF
Left-aligned.
Between three and five metrical feet per line; each line containing the same number of metrical feet. Identify the number of metrical feet and the type of metrical foot you choose in the author notes.
Choose from one of the following type of metrical feet:
pyrrus/dibrach
iamb
trochee/choree
spondee
tribrach
dactyl
amphibrach
anapest/antidactylus
bacchius
antibacchius
cretic/amphimacer
molossus
tetrabrach/proceleusmatic
primus paeon
secundus paeon
tertius paeon
quartus paeon
major ionic/double trochee
minor ionic/double iamb
ditrochee
diamb
choriamb
antispast
first epitrite
second epitrite
third epitrite
fourth epitrite
dispondee
The contest winner will win half of the prize pool which is based on the number of entries. The second and third place winners will each share the remaining prize pool. The prize pool is currently 50.00 member dollars. There are 13 spots still open. If all open spots are used the prize pool will be 180.00 member dollars. In this contest at least 5 submissions must be made for the vote to begin.
Deadline: Contest is closed. Deadline was Wednesday, January 14, 2009.
