Kelly+R's+UG+Proposal

Unfamiliar Genre Project - Poetry (Quatrain)

Why I am interested: I have very little experience with writing poetry, in fact I do not remember the last poem I wrote. I enjoy reading poetry and I think it would be refreshing to try writing some on my own. I chose quatrain because it is short, which will allow me to write multiple poems. This will give me more practice. I will write a poem each day for one week. Each will have a different rhyme scheme to show that quatrains can vary.

What I know about the genre: To be honest, I do not remember any of the rules for any of the types of poetry. It has been such a long time since I have learned about it. I know that different types of poetry have rules regarding purpose, audience, number of words, number of syllables per verse, etc. When I started this project, I did not remember what a quatrain was (although I could assume that it had to do with four lines based on the name). After looking it up, I found that quatrains are a stanza with four lines, but they can vary in regards to rhyme scheme.