The Modern Ozymandias

A Sedoka That Planted Itself in My Mind

By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.

A katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7.

This definition was taken from the Shadow Poetry site here.

For some reason, the poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley came to mind and it is a favourite of mine that was set to music by Jean Jaques Burnel of The Stranglers which I have included in this piece as well. Originally this was just going to be a senryū (which you can read about below) then decided on the sedoka form that Loryne Andawey introduced me to.

I have decided to format and screenshot my poems so the look the way I want them to as the Vocal editor does not allow text alignment yet.