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What Is
Rubricku?
Rubricku is a nine stanza,
three-by-three interlocking renku. Each corner is a seasonal hokku
(haiku), the stanzas between the corners are two-line verses, and the
cenral three-line stanza links to all the other stanzas:
| Winter
Hokku |
2-line stanza |
Spring
Hokku |
| 2-line stanza |
Central
stanza |
2-line stanza |
| Autumn
Hokku |
2-line stanza |
Summer
Hokku |
The Spring Thaw
Rubricku is the first Rubricku I created and is an example of how
the stanzas interlock. Three of the two-line stanzas also allude to
the traditional renku topics: Blossom, Love, and
Moon.
Why Rubricku?
Rubricku is one form of
Renku. Renku is described in Higginson's Renku Home web site
and in one place there is a discussion about how short a renku could be.
Although a 12-stanza linear renku is at the fringes of practical
limits, the 9-stanza interlocking form of the Rubricku facilitates all
the seasons, contains the three traditional topics (blossom, love,
moon), and retains the 2-line / 3-line alternating verse format. It
does deviate from the standard form in that it has four hokku as
opposed to one. If desired, three of the corners could be written as
three-line verses. However, by treating them all as hokku a 3x3
interlocking symmetry is sustained.
Link
to Vaughn Seward's page
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