Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts, Fantasy Vibes = Rhymes!
For the sixth prompt in my Big Pink Book, I decided to use the fantasy imagery, particularly the unicorn, to write some poetry. At the top of the page, I wrote seven lines of what amounted to vaguely iambic pentameter (it’s not perfect, but it’s in that ballpark). And none of the lines rhymed, though the seven lines did sort of have a narrative.
But that didn’t seem complete to me, so I decided it was a start on a sonnet. So my next step was to take the end words from the first seven lines and find four words that rhymed that I could also see using to expand these lines into a full sonnet.
I’ve blurred out most of those seven lines, because this is still a work in progress. But the end words are still showing, sometimes with a little more of the line. They are:
- steed
- perception
- orbit
- horse
- skies
- more
- dreams
Taking that list, the lower portion of the page then has the rhymes (and one note about the meaning of the word I picked).
| Steed | Lead | Breed | Need | Stampede |
| Perception | Shun | Sun | Overrun | “-tion” |
| Orbit | Bit | Hoof it | Sunlit | Commit |
| Horse | Sinistrorse * | Old Norse | Enforce | Course |
| Skies | Dematerialize | Anthropomorphize | Miniaturize | Visualize |
| More | War | Trichobezoar | Saddle sore | Manticore |
| Dreams | Moonbeams | Teams | Streams | Extremes |
*- botanical term for “turning to the left”
You might notice that on the Perception line, I have “-tion,” which was because there were too many good possibilities there. And, of course, there are PLENTY of other options for words that rhyme with each of my end words, but I limited myself to four because of space and not wanting to be overwhelmed with choices when I sit down to finish this poem. I also generally looked for the longer (more syllables) words
If you want to play along at home, you could use my end words and one of the rhymes to write your own sonnet (or other rhyming poem). Or you could take a similar approach but with different initial lines. If you think of another way to use this prompt, whether it’s poetry or something else, I’d love to hear about it!
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