Sketchbook_6-4_JulAug_2011_Karin_Anderson,_AU:_Ekphrastic_Video_Terzanelle:_Eagle's

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Ekphrastic Video Terzanelle

Karin Anderson, AU

Eagle’s Flight

No other bird has the eagle’s life span.
It soars, zooms and climbs to a mountain high.
The eagle triumphs and follows time’s plan.
With rain it wise-wings past clouds in the sky.
To live seventy years it faces pain.
It soars, zooms and climbs to a mountain high.

To suffer a loss it knows it will gain.
Aged forty~wings, beak and talons are razed.
To live seventy years it faces pain.

It knocks its beak on a rock like its crazed.
It plucks out beak, talons, feathers then heals.
Aged forty~wings, beak and talons are razed.

Five months and it knows rebirth is ideal.
Wings span above sky soaked slopes to free rise
It plucks out beak, talons, feathers then heals.

The eagle shall live seventy year’s wise
No other bird has the eagle’s life span.
Wings span above sky soaked slopes to free rise.
The eagle triumphs and follows time’s plan.

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Music: Eagle's Flight by Ernesto Cortazar
Video by Newoceanfower

Terzanelle

A terzanelle is a poetic form combining aspects of the villanelle and the terza rima.^[1]^[2] It is nineteen lines total, with five triplets and a concluding quatrain. The middle line of each triplet stanza is repeated as the third line of the following stanza, and the first and third lines of the initial stanza are the second and final lines of the concluding quatrain; thus, seven of the lines are repeated in the poem. The rhyme scheme and stanzaic structure are as follows (a capitalized letter indicates a line repeated verbatim):

ABA'

bCB

cDC

dED

eFE

fAFA'

Or, for the alternate (couplet) ending, the final stanza is:

f FAA'

A notable example: Lewis Turco: Terzanelle in Thuderweather

References:

Drury, John (2006). The poetry dictionary. Writer's Digest. p. 148. ISBN 9781582973296.
Eliopulos, Tina D.; Moffett, Todd Scott (2005). The Everything Writing Poetry Book: A Practical Guide To Style, Structure, Form, And Expression. Everything. p. 119. ISBN 9781593373221.

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