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Monday, February 25, 2013

Kyrielle


A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza consisting of 4 lines),      
 and each quatrain contains a repeating line or phrase as a refrain. Each line within the poem  consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the amount of stanzas a Kyrielle may have, but three is considered the accepted minimum.       
Some popular rhyming schemes for a Kyrielle are: aabB, ccbB, ddbB,       
with B being the repeated line, or abaB, cbcB, dbdB.

Example Poem

Til the Earless Bunny



Til was a bunny born earless
but that mattered not, still fearless
he played in the hay, and  was  spry.
Sometimes things happen- we wonder why.
      
Genetic change, says Darwin cause
species to  evolve, now just pause
and consider, penquins can't fly.
Sometimes things happen- we wonder why.
      
With ears Til might have heard the threat,
Of near by feet and be here yet
Til lived until he was to die.
Sometimes things happen- we wonder why.


Author Note:
The fate of 17-day-old Til, a bunny with a genetic defect,       
was plastered across German newspapers on Thursday,      
the same day a small zoo in Saxony was to have presented him       
to the world at a press conference.      
The cameraman told Bild newspaper he hadn't seen Til,       
who had buried himself in hay, when he took the fateful      
step backward Wednesday.

© Lawrencealot - April 8, 2012

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