Fussy Little Forms: Cavatina

Friends! Poets! Both! Time for playing with short forms. Let’s try the CAVATINA. 

Just recently came across this older Italian form, but to me, it seems like a sonnet variation--kinda? It features rhyme and syllable counting that together create a nice rhythm, and a couplet at the end.

Here are the rules: 

• Ten-syllable non-rhyming line, 
• Alternating with a four-syllable rhyming line, 
• Repeated at least three times, 
• Ending with a ten-syllable line couplet. 

Found this cute example online: 

Zilch Muse by Ryter Roethicle 

It's not the night or the music, it's me 
My muse has gone 
Too much work, too much pressure is enough 
She has withdrawn 
I sit here my glass of port as company 
Ideas, I have none 
My notes zilch, there's no inspiration there 
All ideas blown 
So I sit here drinking a lovely port 
No light has shone 
Another sip, appreciating God’s gift to me 
I must postpone 
No worldly wisdom to impart to you 
This time my foot is in some other's shoe.

Here is an article with many more examples: CAVATINA

Let’s try it!