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The pyramid of clarity
The Pyramid of Clarity is a recently created short poetry form. Like most short forms, the key to success is choosing your words wisely. Because of this, it is an excellent option for you to practice word choice techniques.
The first line is the key to the entire poem. All the other lines exist to support and further define this single word. In other words, they clarify this word for the reader.
BRIEF HISTORY
Jerry P. Quinn, financial strategist and poet, is the architect of the Pyramid of Clarity. He built the form of poetry in 2002.
SHOULD HAVE
—Three stanzas made up of two triplets and a final explanatory verse.
—The base of the clarity pyramid is the first line, which is a one-syllable word.
—The first line must be in uppercase.
—Each successive line increases the number of syllables by one, except the fourth line, which increases by two.
Structure of the form:
1 SYLLABLE
2 syllables
3 syllables
5 syllables
6 syllables
7 syllables
“8 syllables”
—There are also criteria in the construction of each line.
Remember, the first line must be a single one-syllable word and must also be capitalized. This line has the added function of being the title of the poem. This is what you need to keep in mind when building the rest of the lines.
Line two and line three should clarify or be synonymous with the word in the first line. All lines in the second stanza should describe a life event linked to the word in the first line. The eighth and last line should be in quotes and better describe the first line.
That particular rule annoys me, and it would be one of the first rules I would break with my poetry contractor license. I don’t like to use quotation marks unless I’m, well, quoting someone or using them to show dialogue.
I COULD HAVE o What is the poet’s choice in all of this?
—You can choose to align the poem to the center or not. Many poets choose center alignment to create a visual pyramid, but it is not a requirement.
—The use of rhyme and meter, although I would not recommend it for this short form either.
—In which language is your first word. Actually, what language is your entire poem in, but since I’m an English-speaking poet, I’ll speak from this perspective.
NEW VARIATION 1: I love words and thought it would be interesting to take a word from another language as the first word and then use the rest of the poem to “clarify” it in English. (This might also be a good opportunity for non-native English speakers to take an English word and use the rest of the poem to “clear it up” in their native language.) Because many languages use many syllables in their words. , this might be the time to take the Pyramid of Clarity to the next level and create yet another new variation (see below).
NEW VARIATION 2: Follow the established rules, but change the syllable count to the word count.
OF NOTE
Jerry P. Quinn has won several poetry contests and has had many of his poems published.