A poem consisting of an odd number of quatrains (15 lines or more)
I have no idea if this form has been otherwise named, if you know please advise.
Alternating lines of 5 and 3 syllables, where
the odd lines consist of an IAMB and an ANAPEST
da-DUM da-DUM-da
and the even lines consist of a DACTYL
DUM-da-DUM
Each stanza uses individual rhyme pattern –abab
where the b-rhymes are always feminine rhyme
The first stanza is a refrain, repeated as the final stanza.
Example poem:
Paradise Kept (5 3 Meter)
Such colors are not
accidents
so birds then forgot
abstinence.
Their evolution
manifest
a bright solution
was the best.When foes are but few
we evolve
with different view,
with resolve.
Most survive with ease
but compete
to awe and appease–
the elite.
They sung and they played
and they danced
their colors arrayed
to enhance.
Let man not destroy
thru his greed
the habitat of joy
where.they breed.
Such colors are not
accidents
so birds then forgot
abstinence.
© Lawrencealot – March 30, 2013
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