[stylist] Jackie, about the form used for my poem Interpretations

[KajunCutie926 at aol.com]

Thank you so much Jackie!  The form is as a said  a nonce form I made up 
one day using the simple tercet.  What makes this a  bit different is that I 
let the third line of the tercet flow into the first  line of the next 
tercet.  You can use as many tercets as you wish as long  as the flow pattern of 
third line flowing into first line is followed all the  way through.  The 
line lengths are not restricted and it is not metered but  that is an option 
that is left to the individual writer. I have found however  that keeping the 
line lengths somewhat consistent, without too great a  variation, helps the 
flow of the poem.  You may have a line of ten  syllables, then eight, and 
then perhaps nine.  As I said this is up to the  writer.  I added another 
wrinkle recently in that after the last stanza you  may add a one or two line 
envoi.  I have this form 'tumbling  tercets'.  I do not know if anyone had 
done it quite this way before  although, of course, tercets are very common.  I 
will share another using  an envoi to demonstrate what that is all about.  
Thank you so much for your  questions and interest in the form.  I like it 
because it has that little  bit of structure while allowing me to write in 
free verse.
 
Myrna