Phyquain

Form Created by John Madison Shaw, Sr., aka Arkbear on Allpoetry

MUST have 5 Quatrains -

No Set Line length

No Set Meter

The Nth line of each quatrain must rhyme with each other.

Letter use restrictions.

No letter ( a ) in 1st L of each Q -

No letter ( b ) in 2nd L of each Q -

No letter ( c ) in 3rd L of each Q -

No letter ( d ) in 4th L of each Q -

ALL 1st L's must have same end Rhyme -

ALL 2nd L's must have same end Rhyme -

ALL 3rd L's must have same end Rhyme -

ALL 4th L's must have same end Rhyme -

Flow is a MUST!

Metaphors are a MUST!

Beautiful Poetic voice is a MUST!

There can be no fixed template for the form, for line length is NOT specified

Most I have seen have been pentameter or longer. 

Since one can choose any line-length and meter

I have chosen Iambic tetrameter for this work.

Example Poem

Absurdlutely My Beloved    (Phyquain)

I'll mow my way through drive-way snow

I'll shovel  through the growing grass

I'll throw the pigs at angry birds

or fly-fish somewhere in a blimp.

I'll cry when comedy's the show

and laugh at church and scratch my ass.

I'll roller skate in buff'lo herds

I'll teach ballooning to a shrimp.

I might return before I go,

or teach at school that has no class

or write a poem without words

or book a nun that needs a pimp.

I might invite the firefly's glow

to brighten up each underpass

or make all homeboys into nerds.

I could teach rattlesnakes to primp.

These I might do, you'll never know.

However you will be my lass

forever plus about two-thirds.

Always will I remain your imp.

© Lawrencealot - January 22, 2013

Since one can choose any line-length and meter

I have chosen Iambic tetrameter for this work.

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