Description:
This is a kyrielle with two rhyming refrains in the second and fourth lines of each stanza. It has has octosyllabic lines.
Attributed to: “The Dread Poet Roberts”
Origin: French
Schematic:
aB1aB2 cB1cB2 dB1dB2 eB1eB2 fB1fB2, etc.
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 4
Copyright © 2001-2013 by Charles L. Weatherford. All rights reserved.
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Example Poem
Hanging Around (Double Refrain Kyrielle)
I'm getting used to
hanging 'round;
I seem to have
out-lived my friends
Some friends were
shot and some were drowned
I'm hanging on until
the end.
In youth we lived a
rapid pace-
I seem to have
out-lived my friends
Some died in war but
with God's grace
I'm hanging on until
the end.
Some friends led not
such honest lives.
I seem to have
out-lived my friends
They did not find
themselves good wives.
I'm hanging on until
the end.
Some thought that
acquisitions won-
I seem to have
out-lived my friends
they are all through
but I'm not done.
I'm hanging on until
the end.
© Lawrencealot -
January 26, 2014
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