The Formidable Count

The Formidable Count is a light poetic form concerning war, originating in The Funerary Malevolence. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: two tercets, a couplet and another two couplets. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. The second line of each tercet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. It has lines with three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic trimeter).
• The second part is intended to make a counter-assertion. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. It has lines with five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic pentameter).
• The third part is intended to synthesize previous ideas. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. It has lines with three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic trimeter).

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