The Mini-monoverse is a poetry form originated by Emily Romano. Each Mini-monoverse is made up of two stanzas of five three-syllable lines. They rhyme scheme is a/a/a/a/a for the first stanza and b/b/b/b/b for the second stanza. For a double Mini-monoverse just add two more stanzas. They rhyme scheme for the third stanza should be c/c/c/c/c and for the fourth stanza, d/d/d/d/d. It is desirable that the Mini-monoverse tell a story, but this is not a hard and fast rule.
How Many Times?
Thunderbolt!
Foolish dolt,
On a colt,
Feels the jolt
Of a volt.
Aftermath:
Venting wrath
In the bath,
Second swath!
Do the math.
Copyright © 2007 Emily Romano
Airborne
Cattail fluff
Velvet stuff
Colored buff
Watch it luff
Toward the bluff.
A light breeze
will appease,
lightly tease,
lift with ease
seeds like these.
Copyright © 2007 Margaret R. Smith
Pasted from http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/minimonoverse.html
Many thanks to the ShadowPoetry site.
My example
Ego-lust
It’s a cinch
Marshawn Lynch
shrunk an inch.
His crotch pinch
made me flinch.
Gone awry
a black eye
will apply.
A sad guy,
don’t know why.
© Lawrencealot – Dec 29, 2014
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