What Is Skeltonic Rhythm?

Skeltonics, short verses of an irregular metre much used by the Tudor poet John Skelton. The verses have two or three stresses arranged sometimes in falling and sometimes in rising rhythm. They rely on such devices as alliteration, parallelism, and multiple rhymes and are related to doggerel.

What is a skeltonic poetry or tumbling Verse?

Skeltonic Verse which today is sometimes also referred to as Tumbling Verse, is thought by some to have its roots in Anglo Saxon prosody. Both terms refer to short lines of irregular dipodic meter with tumbling rhyme created in the 15th century by English poet John Skelton (1460-1529).

How do you write a Skeltonic verse?

Verse are simple. Keep the line lengths between three and six words. Keep the same rhyme until it starts to lose its energy/impact.