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

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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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