The True Savants

The True Savants is a light poetic form concerning a historical figure originally devised by the goblin Olngo Grizzlecurses. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into two septets and a couplet. Use of ambiguity is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning and they have similar grammatical structures. Each line has five feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-even.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is ABCCCBB. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.
• The second part is intended to undercut the previous assertion. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is DD.

Events

• In early winter of 186, The True Savants was created by the goblin Olngo Grizzlecurses in Sweepzeals