This is a form I
simply documented, attributing it to
Emily Pauline Johnson, because in the four
hundred twenty plus
forms I have
documented, I've never come across a quintet with
This rhyme
pattern. I used the first stanza of her
poem "The Lost Lagoon" as the template for the metric schema.
The form is
stanzaic, consisting of two or more quintets.
It is of Canadian
origin.
The rhyme scheme is
A1bbbA2 A1cccA2...etc.
(Indicating that the ending words of L1 and L5
are repeated in each stanza.)
It is syllabic,
8/9/9/9/8
The short lines are
anapest, anapest, iamb
da da DUM da da DUM
da DUM
With the middle three lines being
iamb,iamb,anapest,iamb
da DUM da DUM da da
DUM da DUM
My example poem:
Surviving
When a brother is
left behind
it's seldom thought
that his time was due.
No battle raged, and
the sky was blue,
the day that Tim
told us he was through.
"I've no more
strength that I can find."
We would not leave
our friend behind.
he talked about his
sweet wife, his mom,
his father's farm,
his young brother Tom
his faith in God,
which so helped becalm
him all things good
that he could find.
When we found those
we'd left behind
to greet with loving
so very warm
and praises we had
escaped from harm--
we traveled next to
Tim's father's farm
for in our hearts
still Tim we find.
© Lawrencealot -
February 19, 2014
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