Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Bouts Rāmes Anyone?
Posted on March 17, 2004 in Poetry
UPDATE: Done. Please spread the word.
April is National Poetry Month. I intend to observe this, of course, by publishing and writing about poetry.
There was a game that many people enjoyed in the past called bouts rāmes, literally a rhyming match. The play went like this: someone made a list of rhymes and presented them to the others. These had a period of time to create a poem using those rhymes.
If there is enough interest, I will set up a new blog on this site. Once or twice a month I will post a list of rhymes plus a poetic form (e.g. sonnet, villaneulle, sestina, etc.) to try to fit the rhymes into. You can post the results either on your blog or as a comment.
There will be a cool graphic to put up on your site, of course.
Let me know if you want to give it a try.
