#abcb

[heroic-poetry]

Love, Sam

I spoke with him

His smile was bright,

His laugh bubbly

Made me feel light.

Back off he’s mine

Back off he’s mine

Back off he’s mine

Back off he’s mine

Revealed hideout

Up on the hill,

With isolation

Carry me still.

He’s leaving me,

He’s leaving me,

He’s leaving me,

He’s leaving me,

Destined great things,

He needs to stay,

How can I breathe

When he’s away?

You can’t have him

You can’t have him

You can’t have him

You can’t have him

But storms bring doubt.

I’m left to bawl,

Going to meet

Watch as I fall.

How could you B?

How could you B?

How could you B?

How could you B?

[delgadomkt]

Paraná ensaia retomada da produção de búfalos

Paraná ensaia retomada da produção de búfalos

Rebanho de búfalos no Paraná diminuiu nos últimos 20 anos, mas espécie traz vantagens na produção de leite e de carne O pecuarista Luiz Carlos Chimin Claudino olha, orgulhoso, para o seu rebanho de búfalos, que mantém em uma propriedade em Morretes, no Litoral do Paraná. Ressalta o porte vigoroso dos animais, de pelagem preta e chifres em formato de caracol. São 100 matrizes – das quais 30 estão…

[mortejchjo]

Coffeeface

Wouldn't it be crazy sharing cups of coffee

Us both drinking shots of caffeinated love

Swallowing eachother's drinks with just our eyes

And we'd sip again cause one is not enough

[dreamscrape-navigator]

untouchable(s)

You are no more holy than The dust on every hand That carved those jewels from the earth And lifted bread from land

You are no more mighty than A pebble by the sea With each sequential drop the stone Pays mass for memory

Goliath who walks the ground With eyes up high and tall The lamb you bleed so readily Waits eager for your fall

[doctorwhoisadhd]

fucking fascinated with the way mitski just straight up DOESNT follow a rhyme scheme in just about any one of her songs i can think of (and even when she does it's only barely, aka only for part of a song or only rhyming using slant or identical rhymes) and yet she is known for her lyrics being fucking insanely good

[markrothkono61]

I am really appreciating the ABCCB rhyming scheme. Of course I appreciate it every single day, this is not a new development, but I feel that I ought to draw particular attention to it today.

[hellsitegenetics]

I just wanna say that as someone who has a bug hyperfixiation rn and enjoys making ocs based off of bugs that this blog is like, a character design idea haven to me at this point because of all the bugs. Thank you for your service.

String identified: t aa a tat a a a g at a ag c a g tat t g , a caact g a a t at t t ca a t g. Ta c.

Closest match: Balneolaceae bacterium isolate c63fa63d-abcb-44aa-a049-ecdd770e9aed genome assembly, chromosome: 1 Common name: The Balneolaceae family of bacteria.

(This organism has no associated image. Good luck making a character design out of that.)

[i-scan-your-poems]

Would you please do a analysis of the famous "lik the bred" poem by reddit user poem_for_your_sprog?

my name is Cow, and wen its nite, or wen the moon is shiyning brite, and all the men haf gon to bed - i stay up late. i lik the bred.

"i lik the bred" is like maybe my favorite internet poem of all time! of course!

full scansion:

◡ – / ◡ – my name / is Cow, ◡ – / ◡ – and wen / its nite, ◡ – / ◡ – or wen / the moon ◡ – / ◡ – is shiy/ning brite, ◡ – / ◡ – and all / the men ◡ – / ◡ – haf gon / to bed- ◡ – / ◡ – i stay / up late. ◡ – / ◡ – i lik / the bred.

metrical form: iambic dimeter rhyme scheme: ABCB other notes: This could also be analyzed as AABB iambic tetrameter, but what I love about it is that after one long sentence, it breaks the syntactic unit in the middle of a couplet to create a surprising ending. Ink has been spilled over whether the non-standard orthography of this poem is intended to evoke archaism (as it is about an event that happened in an 18th-century historical reenactment) or the animal speaker (cf. the orthography of lolcatz memes).

[lrmraccoon]

ive started my creative writing course at uni and... id forgotten how difficult it can be to write poetry in strict ballad form. i need a 5 stanza ballad which rhymes ABAB or ABCB, only have 8 syllables in the 1st and 3rd lines and 6 syllables in the 2nd and 4th lines, use alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter and it needs a narrative that tells a story.

im also not a poet

i write short stories and novels

im not good at ballads

[hydrogenperfoxide]

So in Anne with an E, in episode 4 towards the end (4:17 left on netflix) there's a shot of Marilla reading from the book of Psalms, specifically 78.

What jumped out at me is that each verse has been turned into a quatrain (four lines) with a ABCB rhyme scheme. It's Ballad Stanzas!

So being the Jewish nerd that I am, I had to know 1) how Robert Alter and JPS translated the psalm and 2) what the heck translation this was (obv an xtian one).

It turns out that it's The Psalms of David in Metre aka The Scottish Psalter of 1650

For quick comparison Alter's first two verses, then JPS 1985, then the first two stanza from the 1650 Robert Alter 1 Hearken, my people, to my teaching. Lend your ear to the sayings of my mouth. 2 Let me open my mouth in a rhapsody, let me voice the verses of old, JPS 1985 1 Give ear, my people, to my teaching, turn your ear to what I say. 2 I will expound a theme, hold forth on the lessons of the past, Scottish Psalter 1650 1 Attend, my people, to my law; thereto give thou an ear; The words that from my mouth proceed attentively do hear.

2 My mouth shall speak a parable, and sayings dark of old; The same which we have heard and known, and us our fathers told.

But extra fun thing: this Scottish Psalter 1650 Psalm 78 is in Common Meter (specifically 8, 6, 8, 6). Which means you can sing this over all sorts of tunes! AZMON (the tune that Wesley's O for a Thousand Tongues uses), a number of other hymn tunes i'm sure, but ALSO: Gilligans Isle (repeating the last line), The House of the Rising Sun, and THE POKEMON THEME (verses)

[dreamscrape-navigator]

Bonsai

when my mother raised me

she didn't do by touch

the sting of iron shears

were all i knew of love

.

when i needed shelter

i made do in my pot

the forest's out of reach

so pray the storm will stop

.

now she is resentful

and burning at her core

the bonsai that she sowed

is not a sycamore

[literallyjusttoa]

Apollo headcannons pt. 4

Apollo loves farms. He is the god of shepherds, so all farm animals are his favorite animals (and wolves, and mice, and dolphins, and-)

Wait now I’m imagining Meg and Apollo running a farm together, with Meg doing the planting and Apollo caring for the animals.

That’s so adorable what.

Anyway also Apollo rhymes when he’s tired. Like, Apollo’s default speech pattern is rhyming in an abcb rhyme scheme, and he actually has to put in effort to not rhyme every other phrase.

Speaking of being tired, this man is wiped out every winter. As soon as the autumn equinox hits, it’s all over for him. This affects all of his kids as well, so all of them just end up bone-tired all winter. Meg let’s Apollo crash at her place to avoid olympians when he just can’t muster the energy.

P.s. I kind of like how ToA follows that mythological precedent. In Greek mythology, it was believed that Apollo actually died every winter, and was reborn in the spring (it’s why Apollo has a connection to burial rites, beyond his position as the god of plagues) so it’s cool that ToA starts in the winter, and Apollo is gradually reborn (i.e. redeemed) into a new god during the summer.

When a god is mad at Apollo they call him Apollon Latoios, since Latoios is an epithet of his that translates to “Son of Leto” so it’s basically like calling him his full familial name. (For Artemis it’s Delia, which translates to “from Delos”, as far as I can tell she doesn’t have an epithet for her mother for some reason :( )

When he wants to take some time away, Apollo turns the sun chariot into an RV and just lives out of it for a little bit. Meg, Artemis, and a few of his children have joined him for these “sky-road trips”

Apollo actually enjoys the taste of La croix because he’s a fucking baby bastard

Thank you for reading my headcannons :D

[cosmosgroundhogday]

Noel's Lament, a ballad?? Less likely than you think

I'm back on my bullshit so let's go.

So, we all know about how Noel's Lament isn't actually a lament and is in fact a ballad, and that Ballad of Jane Doe isn't a ballad and is in fact a lament. All this is because lament's are used for mourning and Noel is mourning his could've-been slutty French life, and ballad's are for telling a story and Jane just wants a story of her own she can tell.

We all know that, that's old news. But what if I were to tell you that Noel's Lament isn't entirely a ballad? We'd expect Noel to perform an untraditional ballad that maybe doesn't follow all of the conventions of an actual ballad as an amab who wants to be an afab sex worker in France, but it goes further than that.

A ballad is a poem that contains 12 stanzas, each with 4 lines that follows either an ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme. An ABAB rhyme scheme is used to tell a love story, and an ABCB rhyme scheme is used to tell a story of heartbreak, or domestic crimes, or political propaganda, or loss of faith in religion etc etc. Noel's Lament follows an ABCB rhyme scheme, due to it's negative tone associating with heartbreak and unfaithfulness and whatever else is going on in Noel's fantasy world.

However, Noel's Lament contains 13 stanzas. Now you might be thinking: hang on, but the very last stanza is 2 lines, that barely even counts. If you're going to exclude the 5th line of some verses "I want to be that fucked up girl" from the ballad then you can exclude those two too! Well I would, except stanzas 11 and 12 also don't follow the rules of a ballad. They're each 6 lines long, and follow an AABBCC rhyme scheme. So when you split stanzas 1-10 and stanzas 11-13 separately, you get a 10 line long ballad, followed by a sonnet. A sonnet is 14 lines and often follows an AABB rhyme scheme, and I'd say Noel's AABBCC rhyme scheme is close enough to say it's the same thing.

See where I'm going with this? If Noel's song is a short ballad followed by a sonnet, whatever could that mean? Well as we know, a ballad is used to tell a story. If that story is cut short, whatever could that symbolise? Noel's tragically early death :). But then why does he sing a sonnet? Well sonnet's are used to write about desire, and even though his entire song is about the desire to be a French sex worker, this desire can also relate to the desire to live again :).

Summary: Noel sings a ballad that's suddenly cut short to symbolise how suddenly his life was cut short, and ends his song with a sonnet to symbolise his desire to live again :D

Thank you for putting up with my English Literature brain who over-analysed the structure of a silly little musical song :D

[bestworstcase]

Hey, I love your rewritten moonstone incantation. Currently working on a fic and I was wondering if I could use it. I’ll make sure to give you credit.

i would encourage you to consider writing your own, if only because the bitter snow incantations are so intertwined with what the sundrop and moonstone are in bitter snow—those songs are invocations to huma and turul, and won’t necessarily integrate well into a fic outside that context. (this is partly the reason i decided to rewrite all of the incantations besides the healing one for bitter snow, because the canon ones didn’t fit my own lore very well.)

the poetic structure is pretty simple: each stanza is three lines SuSuS, then one line uSuSuS, rhyming ABCB DBEB. and all the full incantations begin with an invocation to the power being invoked (“flower, gleam and glow,” “crescent high above,” “power of the sun”).

if you’re not a Poetry Person though you’re welcome to use or adapt either the bitter snow version (if it works for your story) or my more general variation on the canon one:

crescent high above shifting as you go call what lies beneath and let the darkness grow

bind the night to me take the sun’s lost glow raise the lightless tide and let the darkness grow