Ottava Rima - WANTING

After a short break, I am continuing with the "Exploring Poetry" journey with a new poetry form "OTTAVA RIMA".

What is this Ottava Rima?.It is a rhyming stanza of Italian origin usually for long poems.Many poeters such as Boccaccio , Poliziano , Boiardo Spenser, Milton, Yeats and  Lord Byron have successfully used this form in their poems.The Ottava Rima in its current form was created by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, who used it first in Theseide.


The Filostrato of Giovanni Boccaccio

To write a Ottava Rima  :

1. As the name says ,the Italian musical term "ottava" is related to the Italian word for eight: otto.  and "rima"means rhyme in Italian meaning that it is a stanza of eight lines which has rhyming scheme.
2. It is usually written in  iambic pentameter.Iambic foot means that has two syllables the first lightly stressed, and the second heavily stressed. Pentameter is five of those feet to a line. 
3. From the above two points, we have to write a poem of eight lines in five feet and each foot has the stress on the second syllable.
4. The rhyming pattern of each stanza consists of three alternate rhymes and one double rhyme, following the ab-ab-ab-cc pattern.It is said that the Italian poets used the female rhymes to these patterns.

WANTING

As child ,I wished for things toying my eyes  (a) 

Some worked with tantrums ,every child's weapon  (b) 

To seek warmth and attention this child relies  (a) 

Shield , I  snail into my Mother's curtain  (b) 

As adult , I grabbed eyes to make magpies    (a) 

Ruling the world as if my own cabin  (b) 

I had my own drama and scenes to be  (c) 

Yet rooted to the  ground, pleased to agree  (c) 

A bit of my grand passed to my mother  (a) 

Who then passed it to my daughter through me (b) 

I wanted my kid to grow with laughter  (a) 

With the positives that I  learned to gee   (b) 

Growing from mistakes , part of  another (a) 

Clung onto my generations to be (b) 

To follow my journey , quenching my steam (c)

In search to end my half completed dream (c)

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I tried to follow the meter and rhyming pattern.The foot varies according to the rhyme , not so iambic .Post your views below as comments on the same .If You have a Ottava Rima of your own , do leave your links in the comment section below .