Potlatch Poetry Club Challenge Cascade/ Rules & Info--2-6-2020
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CASCADE POETRY
Assigned Topic
Write a cascade poem on a weather0-related event that YOU PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED
FYI--NOT for NOTES
***time period may be from childhood to adulthood (current)
***This isn't the time to write 'I love Spring, Fall , etc. Write about an event that you were part of, such as but NOT limited to, a hurricane, flood, tornado, blizzard, etc. This is to be a TRUE, BIOGRAPHICAL poem. There are many weather-related events--think back to some in YOUR life.
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Created by Udit Bhatia, the Cascade form is all about receptiveness, but in a smooth cascading way like a waterfall". There is NO set meter OR rhyme scheme.

The defining feature of the form is that the lines of the first stanza are repeated as refrain lines in subsequent stanzas to give a "cascading effect".

L1 is repeated as the last line of S2,
L2 is repeated as the last line of S3, and so on until all lines in S1 have been used.

The number of stanzas is, therefore ONE MORE than the number of lines in S1.

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