Solage is a specific form of humorous verse with the following properties:
- It has three lines (called the hook, the line and the sinker) of irregular length.
- The rhyming structure is AAB.
- The third line is a pun based on the previous two lines.
The form was invented by the Melbourne-based performance poet Cameron M. Semmens.
Examples
If you don’t care a bit
Where your arrow hit…
Aim less
They did not mishandle
Creating the scandal:
Proper-gate
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Democracy’s Death (Solage)
Like death’s curtain
these seem certain
– Taxes –
© Lawrencealot – March 7, 2013