Teddy Poem
Type:
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Structure, Subject, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement, Isosyllabic
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Description:
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A fixed form of three six-line verses summed up by
an orphan couplet. All lines are in alexandrines. Rhyme scheme is aabbcc.
There is an additional starter line which is, “Many, many years ago when
Teddy was much younger than today...” The starter line occasionally varies
slightly. The topic of these poems is always the adventures of a certain
Theodore E. Bear, or Teddy as he is better known, who was created in the
Garden of Eden, and having found the Fountain of Youth is immortal and
eternally youthful.
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Attributed to:
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“The Dread Poet Roberts”
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Origin:
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American
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Schematic:
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Rhyme and line pattern: x aabbcc ddeeff gghhii
jj
Meter: xX xX xX xX xX xX, or xxxxxxxxxxxx |
Rhythm/Stanza Length:
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6
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Line/Poem Length:
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21
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Reference:
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See Also:
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Pasted
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My Thanks to Charles
L. Weatherford for this most complete description that I could find.
Example Poem and Visual Template
Ode to Theodore E.
Bear (Teddy Poem)
Many, Many years ago
when Teddy was much younger than today…
For many, many,
years- and I have now lost count
young Theodore E.
Bear, went searching for the fount!
The fountain that he
found- it grants perpetual youth.
He's been around forever- should be long of tooth.
That he has found
it- any children will attest,
as silently he
speaks, and puts them to their rest.
He dresses up in
dresses, or may wear a bow.
He doesn't mind
cross-dressing, that much all of us know.
He may don a
railroad cap or a Smokey hat,
or 'bear' soft
messages, that tell of this and that.
He's never
embarrassed to go nude as it were
and sit about quite
proudly, wearing only fur.
He goes with first
responders - he's most often there-
to mitigate the
panic- temper their despair.
While firemen fight
the blaze- before the clean-up starts,
kids will cling to
Teddy, a balm for frightened hearts.
If they sustain an
"Owie",that requires a shot-
with Teddy there the
pin-prick's pain is soon forgot.
And when things are
all peachy, Teddy you will find
as husband's ways of
saying "Thanks I'm glad you're mine."
© Lawrencealot -
February 8, 2014
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