{"id":786,"date":"2018-03-28T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyfaughnan.com\/faughnan\/?p=786"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:36:47","slug":"poetry-challenge-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/poetry-challenge-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Challenge #28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Balliol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another fun form of poetry is the balliol. The balliol is a four-line poem that has two pairs of rhyming couplets (a couplet is two lines). Each line contains four beats (which you can get by writing eight syllables). Balliols are usually funny and about a person. The first couplet includes the person\u2019s name. The second talks about what they do or who they are.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an example I came up with:<\/p>\n<p>Inventor Thomas Edison<br \/>\nhad light bulb moments in his den.<br \/>\nHe lit the streets so all could tell<br \/>\n\u2019twas one o\u2019clock and all was well.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Set the timer for 7 minutes.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Start writing!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Don\u2019t think about it too much; just do it. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/kellybennett.com\/blog\/\">Kelly Bennett <\/a>and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 700 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole dang poem. Scroll down and click on the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balliol Another fun form of poetry is the balliol. The balliol is a four-line poem that has two pairs of rhyming couplets (a couplet is two lines). Each line contains four beats (which you can get by writing eight syllables). Balliols are usually funny and about a person. The first couplet includes the person\u2019s name. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/poetry-challenge-28\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry Challenge #28&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}