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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Double Refrain Kyrielle

Type: Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic, Stanzaic
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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My Thanks to Charles for his fine poetrybase resouce.


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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