Curtal Long Hymnal Stanza
Type: Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
Description: A stanzaic form composed of three lines of iambic tetrameter and one of iambic dimeter rhymed abab.
Schematic:
xX xX xX xA
xX xX xX xB
xX xX xX xA
xX xB
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 4
Pasted from http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/000/63.shtml
My Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for the wonderful PoetryBase resource.
Note: The ONLY difference between this and the Curtal Quatrain is the rhyme scheme.
My Example Poem
My All [Corrected] (Curtal Long Hymal Stanza)
My friends will not critique my verse
they think that they are being kind.
my enemies are even worse
and I don’t mind.
Those folks would shout and jump with glee
and guffaw loudly when I goof
but they ignore me so can’t see
my error’s proof.
I wrote this form with half the count
of syllables required last week.
for feet took double that amount
so thus this tweak.
© Lawrencealot – May 10, 2014
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