It is
15 syllables per line and at the beginning of every new
line
you
rhyme with the last word of the previous
line.
The
first verse is 7
lines,
the
second verse is 6
lines
and
third verse is 5
lines.
The
rhyme for the whole poem is end line rhyme
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Rhyme
may be perfect rhyme, slant rhyme, or assonance rhyme, or sight rhyme
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defdef
ghigg
Each
new line beginning must be the same rhyme as
the
end
line rhyme of the line before it.
The
following template may help. Interpret the rhyme column (a)b as meaning
the
first
word uses the a-rhyme, the end-word uses the b-rhyme.
Example Poem
Calls for Careful
Constant Cogitation (Melodic)
This
form requires lines fifteen syllables long, an internal
Infernal
rhyme that's tough, because adjoining words must rhyme, hence
sense
must accrue quickly to pairs that seem spaced so far apart.
Start
with a new sentence when you need a break, an external
nocturnal
stimulant, like caffeine or nicotine dispensed
condensed
into a pot or a pack may elevate your heart
chart
and move your muse. Or kill you like sex, food, or exercise.
Surprise
surreptitiously surfaces when stringing sev'ral
caesural
sounds sequentially but may lend a lift and lilt.
Tilt
your lance and charge capriciously calling for less control.
Enroll
enchanting images of white winged fairies with all
enthralled
by fluttering and dancing as if on flower quilt.
Stilt
your language if antiquities you're planning to enroll.
Droll
wit can be levered when you have so many words, but wit
lit
out from me this week. I hoped muse and I could together
gather
something credible, (not aiming for incredible)--
bull
can only be shoveled just so deep. But muse chose to sit
it
out, and left me all alone. Thus this time will be no hit.
Visual Template
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