I'm Only the Trombone Player

Form a Line ...

One of my weekly goals, which I actually posted on "Weekly Goals"  is to write at least one poem for "EXPRESS IT IN EIGHT " , I managed to do that yesterday. You can, if you so desire, find it here "Belying the Storm" 

The most unusual thing about this submission is that I researched and attempted to follow a predetermined form; it turns out there are many forms of poetry that do their thing in eight lines.

I chose something called the Octave. (another term you poets stole from us musicians, or we stole it from you! Who knows, artists are basically thieves). The form is either a standalone eight-line stanza or as the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet:

Via Google:

Octave: Generally refers to any 8-line stanza, but specifically, it is the first 8 lines of a Petrarchan sonnet, usually rhyming (abbaabba).sonnet, usually rhyming (abbaabba).

Great, another term to look up. (back to the Google Tab.

A Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, consisting of an eight-line octave (rhyme scheme ABBAABBA) and a six-line sestet (CDECDE or CDCDCD). It features a "volta" (turn) at line 9, shifting the tone or argument from a problem in the octave to a resolution in the sestet.

Nope, ain't gonna go there! (I have enough trouble with eight lines, now you're asking for six more?)

I managed to get something into a somewhat cohesive form that somewhat followed the concept of a plan, as outlined for the Octave.

It fried my brain, so much so that after it was done, I shut the laptop down and forgot to do one of my daily reviews.

Though I am struck by how many terms poetry and music share.