Meter:
Iambic trimeter, EXCEPT line three which is iambic tetrameter
Rhymed: xaxa xbxb ...
Short Measure or Short Meter, is:
- stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains. When written in octaves doubling the short measure quatrains, the verse form is called Double Short Measure.
- metered, most often L1, L2, L4 iambic trimeter, L3 is iambic tetrameter.
- rhymed, Rhyme scheme xaxa xbxb etc x being unrhymed.
- called Poulter's Measure when consolidated into 2 lines.
Pasted from <http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=660>
My thanks to Judi
Gorder for creating the wonderful resource above.
Example Poem
Audition (Short Measure)
The teacher greeted
her,
the girl with hair
in bun.
She wrote his
lectures in a book,
as though his words
were fun.
At work she did her
job,
and filled the
bosses cup.
Her brightness and
congenial help
seemed never to let
up.
In church she sat
with legs
so primly crossed,
and hands
reclining folded in
her lap,
decorum church
demands.
With me she is alive
and dresses to
entice.
She shows some
cleavage and some thigh,
the both of which
are nice.
I'm looking
seriously.
and want not just a
tart.
her looks had hooked
and reeled me in,
her mind got her the
part.
© Lawrencealot - January 6, 2013
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