Rhyme
Royal:
The
rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter.
The
rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be constructed
either
as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or
a
quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c).
This
allows for a good deal of variety, especially when the form is used for
longer
narrative poems and along with the couplet,
it
was the standard narrative metre in the late Middle Ages.
Example Poem
Tempus
Ambigua
Time is a
concept quite beyond my ken.
String theory
baffles brilliant folks and me.
I'll not wax
philosophic then again
Perhaps I did
already, shame on me.
Time keeps
everything in order you see.
For flies
who's life-cycle completes in one day,
Men and boys
would be distinct I would say.
We can tell a
larva and the grown fly
are one and
the same. Flies would see two types
of animals
that grouped but would not know why.
Our sense of
time is different awake
or when we
sleep, and by task goodness sake.
Don't tell a
guy that seconds are the same
while
shoveling manure or kissing a dame.
©
Lawrencealot - April 14, 2012
Visual Template
No comments:
Post a Comment