William James' Six Word Poetic Form

 
The other day I added a new static page/tab called "6 Words." If you go to it now you will see that it is a form with little boxes that you, the reader, can place information into.

Six words is a poetic form that I derived from the sestina. The Sestina, if you do not know, is a thirty nine line poem that repeats (six) end words in a specific pattern. And if you've followed my page you will note that I have a post (or two) about sestinas. 

On March 2, I wrote a post on the first generation of this form. Click here to see the first generation of this form if you are interested. As you can see (if you clicked on either of the two hyperlinks above) that six words is twenty one lines shorter than a sestina.

Stanza 1	Word Placement in the sentence
Line 1)	1	2	3
Line 2)			4
Line 3)	6		5
	Word Placement in the sentence
Stanza 2	beg	mid	end
Line 4)	6	4	2
Line 5)			3
Line 6)	5		1
	Word Placement in the sentence
Stanza 3	beg	mid	end
Line 7)	5	3	1
Line 8)			2
Line 9)	4		6
	Word Placement in the sentence
Stanza 4	beg	mid	end
Line 10)	4	6	5
Line 11)			1
Line 12)	3		2
	Word Placement in the sentence
Stanza 5	beg	mid	end
Line 13)	3	1	6
Line 14)			5
Line 15)	2		4
	Word Placement in the sentence
Stanza 6	beg	mid	end
Line 16)	2	5	4
Line 17)			6
Line 18)	1		3

If you'd like to give the form a try study the patterns in the table above. If you have any questions shoot me an email and I'll do my best to clarify your inquiry. And if you email me your poem, I'll post it for the world to read :)

Now, go up to the "6 Word" tab / static page and challenge me with six words.