This is an invented form (Aren’t they all), created by a Canadian Poet named D. D. Michaels who writes on Allpoetry.com, with many aliases over the 2-1/2 years I have followed him.
The Ababette is:
A 24 line poem,
Stanzaic, consisting of four sestets
Rhyme pattern: abcbc abdabd abeabe abfabf
Metrical, with all “a” lines being iambic dimeter
and all others being iambic trimeter.
My example
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Velikovski’s View* (Ababette)
Well Holy cow!
I saw an awesome sight
above a canyon shelf
and I’ll avow
it bolstered my insight
about this earth itself.
I whispered wow!
The timing was so right
for I’m so seldom here
yet here and now
I’d visited this site.
The sky was crisp and clear.
I’ll disavow
the theory most books cite,
that water over years
was canyon’s plough.
I know that isn’t right
when “downhill” disappears.
I do know how
this happened in one night!
A million times the force
of this fine show
when Jupiter was bright
and proximate, of course.
© Lawrencealot – September 23, 2014
*See more about Velikovski here
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Velikovsky
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