Cheyenelle

Cheyenelle

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

5:35 PM

This form was invented by Silent_Cougar and it's structure honors native American Heritage.

The Cheyenelle follow the ‘circle of life’, and that all life is connected.

The words creating their own circle, forming the connection in the closing stanza.

Free Verse Format

The title must relate to the poem, but also adjoin

 the opening single line creating a rhyming couplet.

The first line and stanza are trimeter (two syllable feet)

The next three stanzas are tetrameter,

and the final unspecified, (depending upon word syllable)

The following four stanza then become the creation of the final fifth stanza,

where each lines final word builds into the lines of the fifth stanza.

which holds only four words per line.

The fifth stanza must also read as a stand alone poem.

This form results in automatic internal rhyme in the closing stanza.

The FOLLOWING are the specifications for the Rhymed Version.

Rhyme scheme:

a

a

bcbc

dede

fcfc

hehe

cece

The opening line and first stanza are 6 syllables

Stanza two is 7 syllables

Stanza three is 8 syllables

Stanza four is 9 Syllables

Stanza five is undefined.

Example Poem

We Are All Brothers  (Cheyenelle)

From different mothers

Indeed we all do come.

We can all get along

If when we meet we hum

a tune or sing a song.

Tribal chants - many voices

recognizing all are swayed

by Earth's gifts - that our choices

hinge on those others have made.

DNA has proven and we'll

all soon know that we all belong

to a common tribe and can feel

at home on earth with kinship strong.

Once all people know they are mankind's

blood-brother all will join the parade

which will find humanity enshrined

at peace with earth and quite unafraid.

Come along hum a song.

Voices swayed choices made.

We all belong; feel strong

mankind's parade, enshrined, unafraid.

(c) Lawrencealot - Sept 28, 2012

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