Up – On the green hill,
Stands the king’s castle,
With tall rocky walls.
What was behind walls??
A Secret door – down hill…
As none could enter the castle;
Secrets of the king’s castle
Are now open with broken walls,
But still stand up on the hill…..
On the green hill, stands the king’s castle with broken walls….
———————————————–The Tritina…
~ It’s a ten line poem arranged in three stanzas of three lines, and ends with a single line.
~ The key words are the end of line words that become refrain and repeat.
~ Choose three words you’d associate with the image, words that will fall at the end of your lines.
~ Number them 1,2,3.
~ Your first stanza has three lines, with end of line words in the order 1,2,3.
~ Second stanza, the end of line words are in the order 3,1,2
~ Third stanza 2,3,1.
~ Last line uses all three words in order 1,2,3. ~ The lines don’t have to be any particular length but it’s usual for them to be all of the same length.
Thank you for teaching me this form…I’ll have to give it a try. and its a wonderful little verse for it 🙂
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Thanks Morgan…and thanks Jane for introducing me to this form..if you fix on the three words, then would be real to construct the verse
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The tritina is perfect for this. Well done. (K)
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Thank you
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