The first one was Arnaut Daniel's "Lo Ferm Voler," and the earliest example of one in English is a song sung by shepherds Strephon and Klaius by Philip Sidney titled "Ye Goat Herd Gods.
Elizabeth Bishop's "A Miracle for Breakfast" is one, as is Louis Zukofsky's "Mantis." Popeye "sits in thunder" and "scratche[s] his balls" in "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape," a comic one by John Ashbery. The first one was Arnaut Daniel's "Lo Ferm Voler," and the earliest example of one in English is a song sung by shepherds Strephon and Klaius by Philip Sidney titled "Ye Goat Herd Gods." Ending with a three-line tornada or envois, it originated in 12th-century France and is the only form accepted for poetry submissions to McSweeney's. Using a retrograda cruciata pattern of repetition in six-line stanzas, FTP, name this complex poetic form of 39 lines in which the same six words must end the six lines in each stanza and then all be used in the final three-line stanza.
Elizabeth Bishop's "A Miracle for Breakfast" is one, as is Louis Zukofsky's "Mantis."
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