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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Butterfly Quintet


This is a Butterfly Quintet created by Amanda Jean Norton

Stanza 1 is Iambic Pentameter rhyming abcbd
Stanza 2 is Iambic Tetrameter rhyming effe
Stanza 3 has 2 lines of Iambic Trimeter, Enveloped by 2 lines of Iambic Pentameter
The rhyming words are the same words in each set EGGE
Stanza 4 is Iambic Tetrameter rhyming hiih
Stanza 5 is Iambic Pentameter rhyming abcbd

Example Poem

Write a Butterfly Quintet

To write a Butterfly Quintet my pet
you place complex content in stanza one.
There's room internally to romp with rhyme
or sprinkle sparks of alliteration.
The same thing goes, by jive in stanza five.

In middle stanzas do your play.
These step more quickly, I believe;
less time to ponder, think or grieve.
First line next stanza have you say!

Expound your thesis here-- it's quite okay.
Exclaim your point right now.
Make emphasis some how.
The repeated words for that deed are okay.

Now butterfly, just flutter by.
Just play and give the air some shoves--
enjoyed wherever there are loves.
You light their hearts up butterfly.

Here the conclusion you'd most likely set,
with evidence supporting, now begun.
If playful theme there's still a  lot of time
To zig and zag, and twist the plot for fun.
Your muse can use this form to come alive.

© Lawrencealot  - July 2, 2012




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