Turn your Wordles into Wheedles!
Try this daily poetry exercise devised by EDDIE GIBBONS and developed with HELENA NELSON
Wheedle is a warm-up exercise for individuals and writing groups alike. In tandem with Wordle, Wheedle can help you overcome your fear of the blank sheet of paper. Simply complete your daily Wordle, start your daily Wheedle and you have a ready-made method for getting your words in motion without all the angst, so why not smash that writer's block and have a bit of fun? - Eddie.
Here’s how to Wheedle
1. Solve your Wordle as usual.
2. Save the words you used for each guess, and the Wordle number for that day.
3. Did you get your Wordle in two, three, four, five or six goes?
4. Write your Wheedle, following the rules below for the number of goes.
For newcomers to poetry, here's the lowdown on syllables- Syllable Rules & Grammar (howmanysyllables.com)
Wheedle Rules
In all cases the Wordle words are to appear at the END of each Wheedle line (see below for examples).
1 Go — If you get Wordle correctly in one go, keep it to yourself or nobody will speak to you ever again.
2 Goes — Write a Couplet: Two lines of 10/11 syllables. Must name a person. Make them rhythmic if you can.
#wheedle271
VIOLA-MOVIE
Francis Ford Coppola's old viola
played it retro in his Tetro movie
3 Goes — Write a Haiku (line 1 = 5 syllables, line 2 = 7 syllables, line 3 = 5 syllables)
#wheedle273
FLOCK-BLOAT-ALLOW
Are three sheep a flock?
Does a bloater have to bloat?
Aloud or allow?
4 Goes -- Write a Quatrain - 4 lines, each rhyming internally.
#wheedle282
FAITH-FURRY-FLUNK-FOUND
When using a lathe, you gotta have faith.
Don’t hurry, or worry. Avoid stuff that’s furry.
Get in a funk and you’ll probably flunk -
but lathe-work is sound where the faithful are found.
5 Goes — Write a Quindle (made-up name) - five alliterative lines of five words. One word must begin with the letter 'q'.
#wheedle262
STARE-SPENT-SMELT-SHEET-SWEET
Don't just stand and stare
now that all passion's spent.
The roses that you smelt
strewn winsome on your sheet
are still quite as sweet.
(Make sure you count words not syllables here)
5 Goes — (ALTERNATIVE) Write a Cinquain (syllabics 2,4,6,8,2)
HARDER OPTION
#wheedle-240
PEACE-CLOUD-CRIMP-CHING-CYNIC
No peace
beneath this cloud
while you sit there and crimp
your hair and scoff at my i ching,
cynic!
6 Goes -- Write two Tercets (three-line stanzas), free form. Must name a place.
#wheedle241
TRULY-PROSE-WRONG-CROOK-BROAD-AROMA
If you truly
want to write prose,
make it crime — you can’t go wrong.
A book about a crook
must contain a broad
and have a Brooklyn bagel aroma.
Posting your Wheedles on Social Media.
1. Wait till the next day before posting on social media. You must not share your Wheedle on the same day you solved the Wordle
or it will be a spoiler for other Wordlers.
2. But next day all is clear. Share your Wheedle on Twitter or Facebook.
3. The hashtag for sharing (essential) is #wheedle273 (or the relevant number of the relevant day’s Wordle).
Super Wheedle!
If, after a long week's Wheedling you still have an ounce of stamina left why not try the Super Wheedle?
This challenge has seven lines, free form. Each line must start with the initial letter of the weekdays, starting with Monday.
Each line must end with the corresponding correct Wordle word for that day.
Below is an example using Wordle week Mon Feb 21st (wordle 247) to Sunday Feb 27th, 2022 (wordle 253)
Please make sure you use the exact hashtag as shown below but with the Wordle numbers for the week you are writing about.
#wheedle-super247to253
OTHER-THORN-TROVE-BLOKE-VIVID-SPILL-CHANT
Mother, you were like no other.
They called you a rose and dad a thorn.
Wedding days were your memory's trove.
Though you thought dad a knight he was just a bloke.
Fondness renders reminiscences vivid,
Some cause torrents of tears to spill.
Stand together! was our family chant.
So, you would complete your Sunday Wordle and write your Wheedle, as usual. You would then use Sunday's Wordle answer as the final word of the final line of your Super Wheedle.
Note: Super Wheedle poems might well contain too many characters for Twitter, so you might have to post them as screen shots.
The hashtag should read like this - #wheedle-super247to253 (with the relevant Wordle XXXtoXXX numbers for the week)
HAPPY WHEEDLING!
Try this daily poetry exercise devised by EDDIE GIBBONS and developed with HELENA NELSON
Wheedle is a warm-up exercise for individuals and writing groups alike. In tandem with Wordle, Wheedle can help you overcome your fear of the blank sheet of paper. Simply complete your daily Wordle, start your daily Wheedle and you have a ready-made method for getting your words in motion without all the angst, so why not smash that writer's block and have a bit of fun? - Eddie.
Here’s how to Wheedle
1. Solve your Wordle as usual.
2. Save the words you used for each guess, and the Wordle number for that day.
3. Did you get your Wordle in two, three, four, five or six goes?
4. Write your Wheedle, following the rules below for the number of goes.
For newcomers to poetry, here's the lowdown on syllables- Syllable Rules & Grammar (howmanysyllables.com)
Wheedle Rules
In all cases the Wordle words are to appear at the END of each Wheedle line (see below for examples).
1 Go — If you get Wordle correctly in one go, keep it to yourself or nobody will speak to you ever again.
2 Goes — Write a Couplet: Two lines of 10/11 syllables. Must name a person. Make them rhythmic if you can.
#wheedle271
VIOLA-MOVIE
Francis Ford Coppola's old viola
played it retro in his Tetro movie
3 Goes — Write a Haiku (line 1 = 5 syllables, line 2 = 7 syllables, line 3 = 5 syllables)
#wheedle273
FLOCK-BLOAT-ALLOW
Are three sheep a flock?
Does a bloater have to bloat?
Aloud or allow?
4 Goes -- Write a Quatrain - 4 lines, each rhyming internally.
#wheedle282
FAITH-FURRY-FLUNK-FOUND
When using a lathe, you gotta have faith.
Don’t hurry, or worry. Avoid stuff that’s furry.
Get in a funk and you’ll probably flunk -
but lathe-work is sound where the faithful are found.
5 Goes — Write a Quindle (made-up name) - five alliterative lines of five words. One word must begin with the letter 'q'.
#wheedle262
STARE-SPENT-SMELT-SHEET-SWEET
Don't just stand and stare
now that all passion's spent.
The roses that you smelt
strewn winsome on your sheet
are still quite as sweet.
(Make sure you count words not syllables here)
5 Goes — (ALTERNATIVE) Write a Cinquain (syllabics 2,4,6,8,2)
HARDER OPTION
#wheedle-240
PEACE-CLOUD-CRIMP-CHING-CYNIC
No peace
beneath this cloud
while you sit there and crimp
your hair and scoff at my i ching,
cynic!
6 Goes -- Write two Tercets (three-line stanzas), free form. Must name a place.
#wheedle241
TRULY-PROSE-WRONG-CROOK-BROAD-AROMA
If you truly
want to write prose,
make it crime — you can’t go wrong.
A book about a crook
must contain a broad
and have a Brooklyn bagel aroma.
Posting your Wheedles on Social Media.
1. Wait till the next day before posting on social media. You must not share your Wheedle on the same day you solved the Wordle
or it will be a spoiler for other Wordlers.
2. But next day all is clear. Share your Wheedle on Twitter or Facebook.
3. The hashtag for sharing (essential) is #wheedle273 (or the relevant number of the relevant day’s Wordle).
Super Wheedle!
If, after a long week's Wheedling you still have an ounce of stamina left why not try the Super Wheedle?
This challenge has seven lines, free form. Each line must start with the initial letter of the weekdays, starting with Monday.
Each line must end with the corresponding correct Wordle word for that day.
Below is an example using Wordle week Mon Feb 21st (wordle 247) to Sunday Feb 27th, 2022 (wordle 253)
Please make sure you use the exact hashtag as shown below but with the Wordle numbers for the week you are writing about.
#wheedle-super247to253
OTHER-THORN-TROVE-BLOKE-VIVID-SPILL-CHANT
Mother, you were like no other.
They called you a rose and dad a thorn.
Wedding days were your memory's trove.
Though you thought dad a knight he was just a bloke.
Fondness renders reminiscences vivid,
Some cause torrents of tears to spill.
Stand together! was our family chant.
So, you would complete your Sunday Wordle and write your Wheedle, as usual. You would then use Sunday's Wordle answer as the final word of the final line of your Super Wheedle.
Note: Super Wheedle poems might well contain too many characters for Twitter, so you might have to post them as screen shots.
The hashtag should read like this - #wheedle-super247to253 (with the relevant Wordle XXXtoXXX numbers for the week)
HAPPY WHEEDLING!
