Coin Poem
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Type:
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Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Pivot Requirement
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Description:
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A two-couplet poem where the first couplet states a thought and the second flips it, or shows the other side. It is syllabic, showing some relation to many Japanese poems by alternating seven and five-syllable lines, but has rhyme. The rhyme can be as rhymed couplets or merely the second and fourth line of the poem.
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Schematic:
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Rhyme: ab cb or aa bb
Meter: xxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxx
xxxxx |
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Rhythm/Stanza Length:
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2
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Line/Poem Length:
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4
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Pasted from <http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/000/50.shtml>
My Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for the wonderful PoetryBase resource.
My Example Poem
Early to Bed, Late to Rise (Coin Poem)
Early in and out of bed
helps one get a head.
if sleeping late is allowed
you avoid the crowd.
© Lawrencealot – April 29, 2014
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