Abecedarians PLUS

March 8, 2008 | Filed Under Poetry 

I had so much fun writing my first abecedarian that I spent hours writing other patterns based on that. They probably exist somewhere, but I have never seen them, so I will post the abcedarian pattern and seven other versions of it for each of the following groups:

• the entire alphabet
• just consonants
• vowels
• vowels and sometimes y (the way we learned the vowels in grammar school back in the near dark ages)

Todays patterns use vowels only as the first letter of each line.  My attempt of one of them:

PATTERN C. ALPHABETICAL ORDER - ONE THEN TWO

The In-law

amiable at the most (toward me)
eclectic less than others, my
efforts at connection meet synapses that fail to fire
inside her mind’s connection to heart,
obsidian feedback
occasional moments of bridges crossed
ultimately connection lost

MeeAugraphie
03/08/08

I offer them so you can just copy and paste and not have to think them out as you write your poems. Have at it. Freestyle or rhyme, your choice. I did four others of these this morning, to be posted later today.

Here are the first eight patterns just based on Vowel letters:

VOWELS ONLY:

(FIRST LETTER OF FIRST WORD OF EACH LINE IS THE LETTER GIVEN. )
PATTERN A. ALPHABETICAL ORDER

a
e
i
o
u

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PATTERN B. ALPHABETICAL ORDER - TWO EACH

a
a
e
e
i
i
o
o
u
u

~~~~~

PATTERN C. ALPHABETICAL ORDER - ONE THEN TWO

a
e
e
i
o
o
u

~~~~~

PATTERN D. ALPHABETICAL ORDER - TWO THEN ONE

a
a
e
i
i
o
u
u

~~~~~

PATTERN E. IN REVERSE ORDER

u
o
i
e
a

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PATTERN F. IN REVERSE ORDER - TWO EACH

u
u
o
o
i
i
e
e
a
a

~~~~~

PATTERN G. IN REVERSE ORDER - ONE THEN TWO

u
o
o
i
e
e
a

~~~~~

PATTERN H. IN REVERSE ORDER - TWO THEN ONE

u
u
o
i
i
e
a
a

~~~~~

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