Ethere [eh-thuh-ray] consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. It is like an inverted nonet with an extra line.

Ethere may also be reversed (inverted) and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. When writing multiple stanzas, the pattern of the original (whether standard or inverted) generally continues in the subsequent stanzas.

Here are two of mine:


Love
_{ethere it is, or...}


plunge
yourself
in… to love
bottomlessly
and you’ll discover
that it is not baseless
though somewhat ethereal
when action's truly the real thing...
it carries more weight than you can bear;
while there may seem no rhyme, there is reason

_{© MLee Dickens'son 23 Feb 2004
Revised 16 July 2007}



Free Love

Can
someone
demonstrate
that he has love
apart from actions?
He'll not ask one thing
in return for what he gives
but good for the one receiving
though the recipient may hate him
all through the process of being given.

_{© MLee Dickens'son 21 Aug 2007}

Thanks Daniel,

I could of sworn we'd posted this form before, but alas, it wasn't ehre - so thanks again! Are there any rhyming requirements or is it based soley on the syllables/lines?

Both poems are a very powerful example of the form - thanks again!

~Cleo

Hi Daniel~

Thank you again for the poetry education. I rely on you!

Extremely interesting?

PP

Thank you, Lori and Bev!

Yes, I thought that this form had been posted too, as I was going to refer to it for one of the members who asked about it... but after searching over the three pages three times (You know how I can overlook things with my dyslexia, so I have to do things multiple times!), I couldn't find it either and just took the chance that it really wasn't there. I'm surprised, but I didn't want this form to go unused here.

Like the nonet (Is that posted here?) it is purely syllabic, and there are no other requirements... except, of course, to not merely chop narrative or prose up into arbitrary chunks. I personally like to have each line share a complete thought or portions of a thought. I also personally work at line length if possible to present a pleasing picture.

Lightly, Daniel