Day 12 ~ How to Write a “Terse Verse” for “30 Poems in 30 Days” #NationalPoetryMonth

So how about a little levity for today? Here’s a poetry form I have never tried before. It’s called a “Terse Verse” and is quite often funny.

It’s actually a riddle with a two-word rhyming answer, basically a synonym. The tricky part is that the two words in the answer must also have the same number of syllables. 

Here are a few examples from the web:

What do you call a rabbit’s seat?

TERSE VERSE: “Hare’s Chair.”

What do you call a quizzing friend?

“Study Buddy”

What makes a dark room bright?

“Night Light”

What do you call a pig in an earthquake?

“Shaken Bacon”

I think the Rhyme Zone tool would come in handy for this – it might be easier to approach this poetry form backwards by finding a double rhyming two-word phrase with equal syllables and then create a question or riddle for it.

Here’s the Rhyme Zone tool link: http://www.rhymezone.com/

Crazy, right? Here are a few I came up with:

 

What do you call a cucumber that can’t make up 

its mind?  

“Fickle Pickle”

 

What do you call polite frozen water?

“Nice Ice”

  

What do you call a joke-telling rabbit? 

 “Funny Bunny”

 

What do you call a miserable cat?

“Crabby Tabby”

What do you call an angry garbanzo?

“Mean Bean”

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