Bref Double

Bref Double

Type:	Structure, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic
Description:	A fourteen-line French form. Like many French forms, the rules are a bit complex. It is composed of three quatrains and a couplet, all isosyllabic. It has three rhymes: a, b, and c. It has five lines that are not part of the rhyme scheme. The c rhyme ends each quatrain. The a and b rhymes are found twice each somewhere within the three quatrains and once in the couplet.
Impressions:	Have fun; it's French.
Origin:	French
Schematic:	Some sample rhyme schemes would be: abxc abxc xxxc ab, xaxc xbxc xbac ba, xabc xaxc xbxc ab, etc.
Rhythm/Stanza Length:	4
Line/Poem Length:	14

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My thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for his fine Poetrybase resource.

My example poem

A Merchant Mariner     (Bref Double)

A soliloquy mumbled while aboard a ship

addressed issues encountered by conscripted men:

the comforts found in surroundings I'd known, no thoughts

of danger real or imagined- not everyday.

With thoughts of carnality, adventure, hardship,

rewards of sharing bounty, succeeding and then

returning home after I've traveled, unraveled

the wonderful mystr'ies that might hold me in sway.

The captain, querulous, demands most constant yield

from every man. The old first  mate so hates the king

he wrings more than mere duty from men on his watch.

The nation we're helping will repay us some day.

I came home a hero. It was quite a long trip.

But now that those days are passed, I'd do it again.

© Lawrencealot - April 18, 2014

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