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The
Creation of "Rosa Rugosa"
"A Villanelle
Renga"
Karina Klesko
Sabaki: Karina Klesko
Coordinator: John Daleiden
Verse
1: First
Triplet/Degachi - writers compete by
submitting a verse—in this case all three lines were
degachi, because they set the rhyming for the whole poem.
This first verse is the Hokku of an eastern renga.
To begin a villanelle, two rhyming lines are written;
generally in iambic pentameter. A third,
non-rhyming line is composed and inserted between the two
rhyming; these a and b rhymes appear in each subsequent verse.
This process establishes the pattern for rhyme and repetition in
the entire poem.
Verses
2-5:
assigned by the sabaki
In an eastern renga, a
link/tsukeai and shift/tenji would take place
between the poets beginning with the daisan, the third
verse of the
renga.
Kigo/season and non-season
verses are written into folios creating a shisan/junicho
of 12 verses or to a full 36 verse Kasen renga. A
hyakuin is a 100 verse renga.
The villanelle uses a
fixed pattern of verses repeating A1 and A2 lines and two
rhymes, a and b, replacing the
linking action of a renga. There is no shifting away from
subject in a villanelle. This is where the villanelle and renga differ because a renga is not themed. Its western sister,
the rengay is a themed poem of six verses.
Verse
6: Last Quatrain/Degachi
-poets submitted their two lines for verse six adding them to the
rhymed couplet.
All poets voted.
Thus, through a process of
submission, discussion, and voting the writers composed the six
stanzas of the poem "Rose Rugosa". The record of creating
the collaborative poem is recorded on a blog, "Villanelle's Eastern
Renga Style".
To read the step by step
development of this collaborative
villanelle recorded by John Daleiden, click:
Step
by Step.
John E. Carley on Renku is a link which
explains the process of composing a renga.
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