Poetry Forms : Curtal Long Hymnal Stanza

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
Description:	A stanzaic form composed of three lines of iambic tetrameter and one of iambic dimeter rhymed abab.
Schematic:	xX xX xX xA xX xX xX xB xX xX xX xA xX xB

My Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for the wonderful PoetryBase resource.

My Example Poem

My All (Curtal Long Hymnal Stanza)

I must now be

in total thrall;

demand from me

my all.

I'll give no less,

for when inspired

I know my best's

required.

And if I fail

the lack's my own.

I'll guzzle ale

alone.

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