Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to use a movie quote in a poem. Mish provided a list to choose from. When I saw “It’s alive! It’s alive!” from Frankenstein (1931), the repetition reminded me of a poetry form. I looked back through my poems from last OctPoWriMo and found it in my post from October 6, 2020 Following Desire. The form is Monotetra.
The instructions for the Monotetra are a little confusing because it talks about number of feet and also number of syllables. If you look at my poem in that post, “Desire is the ear at the curtain,” I was counting syllables (eight), and rhyming, but wasn’t paying attention to meter. The instructions for the Monotetra form assume a poetic metrical foot to have two syllables, but a poetic foot can have more than two syllables: like the dactyl (stressed, unstressed, unstressed) I used in my last post, and the anapest (unstressed, unstressed, stressed) which is how I read “It’s alive!”
Since I want to play with anapestic meter instead of 8 syllables this will be an alternate form of a Monotetra. It will still be made of rhyming quatrains, and the fourth line will repeat, but each line will be in anapestic dimeter.
Revival
When a song with a drive
brings the bees to the hive
and the throng into thrive
“It’s alive! It’s alive!”
like a wrong she deprives
and with love to connive
and belong she can strive
Hope’s alive! It’s alive!
on the path to revive
when the depth of the dive
meets the wrath she archived
Hope’s alive! It’s alive!
like a storm will arrive
hear the clap, count to five
stay informed to survive
“It’s alive! It’s alive!”
Great rhymes! I particularly like like a storm will arrive / hear the clap, count to five / stay informed to survive / “It’s alive! It’s alive!” 🙂
Thank you.
I love a bit of verse. There isn’t enough of it! Thanks.
My goodness this is absolutely pheneomenal!! 💝💝
I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
Inventive using Frankenstein’s monster the way you did and in a lyrical format.
I love it! Very nice form and it flows so well. Your poem if very much “alive!”
Thank you.
You are welcome!
That is ONE challenging form! Well done …….
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I like the title, Revival, as this is a burst of energy and I enjoyed the playfulness in the verses!
Nice work with the form – full of vitality!
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Really enjoyed this! Yes, count to five after that thunder clap to see how close the lightning flash was!
What a refreshing and wonderfully contrasting way to use the line compared to it’s use in the movie.
Thank you.