Rime Couée

Rime Couée is a tail-rhymed verse form of 12th century Provencal troubadours. Though it originated in France, it is thought to be the predecessor of the more popular Scot form, the Burns Stanza.

The Rime Couée is:

• stanzaic, written in any number of sixains made up of two tercets.

• accentual, folk meter of normal speech. L1,L2, L4, L5 are longer lines of a similar length, L3 and L6 are shorter lines of the same length.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme aabccb, ddeffe etc.
  
  

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My example Poem

St. Joseph Lighthouse - Lake Michigan        (Rime Couée)

When Old Man Winter struts his stuff

to show that he is good enough

he paints in white.

Unlike the art-work done by Spring

where colors touch most everything

pastel or bright.

His canvass can be anything

a bridge a tree, an old coil spring

that's left outside.

St. Joseph lighthouse shown above

received full measure of his love.

I'm satisfied.

©Lawrencealot - February 8, 2014

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