{"id":105153,"date":"2022-06-25T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=105153"},"modified":"2022-06-24T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T23:40:11","slug":"prompt-for-the-eighth-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-for-the-eighth-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompts for the Eighth Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Text Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every year we have a new form prompt, and this year, it&#8217;s the Gigan, which is an invented form. There&#8217;s a detailed blog post about it <a href=\"http:\/\/dianelockward.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/an-invented-form-gigan.html\">here<\/a>, and it includes an example Gigan, which always helps.<\/p>\n<p>Gigans must be 16 lines in length with seven stanzas (each stanza is separated by a line break). It goes couplet (two lines), tercet (three lines), couplet, couplet, couplet, tercet, couplet.<\/p>\n<p>The first line is also the eleventh line, line six is repeated as line 12 as well.<\/p>\n<p>Optionally the closing couplet should put a twist on the poem, but that isn&#8217;t a requirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105155\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/274758823_642210007031102_9110438816154112916_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/274758823_642210007031102_9110438816154112916_n.jpg 648w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/274758823_642210007031102_9110438816154112916_n-150x300.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/274758823_642210007031102_9110438816154112916_n-512x1024.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo contributed by Ofuma Agali.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rq0escxv l9j0dhe7 du4w35lb j83agx80 cbu4d94t d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz rj1gh0hx buofh1pr g5gj957u p8fzw8mz iuny7tx3 ipjc6fyt hyh9befq\">\n<div class=\"j83agx80 cbu4d94t ll8tlv6m taijpn5t buofh1pr qx9c56kf\">\n<div class=\"d2edcug0 j83agx80 bp9cbjyn\">\n<h2 class=\"gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz\" dir=\"auto\"><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Prompt Every year we have a new form prompt, and this year, it&#8217;s the Gigan, which is an invented form. There&#8217;s a detailed blog post about it here, and it includes an example Gigan, which always helps. Gigans must be 16 lines in length&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106137,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105153\/revisions\/106137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}