A Companion Guide for the 51 Poetic Forms from Stephanie Rogers' Fat Girl Forms

An Explanation of Each Form in a Handy-Dandy List

Okay, so you're reading Stephanie Rogers' Fat Girl Forms, and you got Haiku and Acrostic down, but then you hit "terza rima" and you're like… uh… wha?

I got you, Boo.

This companion guide has the (traditional) explanation of each form in the order it appears in the book. [But just because a form traditionally follows certain constraints doesn't mean that Stephanie Rogers didn't take poetic license in her pieces… but I know you know that already ;-) ]

Helpful information of how I notated the poetic patterns:

(Skip this if you're familiar with poetic notation)

Syllable counts are indicated with hyphens. For example, a haiku often denoted as 5–7–5. Five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line.

Rhyming lines are indicated with lowercase matching letters. For example, a/b/a/b means the two a lines rhyme and the two b lines rhyme.