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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Meisenheimer's Sestet

This form was created by Glenn Meisenheimer, aka gmcookie on Allpoetry.

It is stanzaic consisting of two or more stanzas.
It is syllabic, each stanza being a sestet of 11/8/11/11/11/8 syllables.
It is metrical, with the long lines consisting of three anapestic feet and an iamb, and each short line consisting of two anapestic feet and an iamb.
Rhyme pattern:  xabbba
My Example

April 7th Phone Call     (Meisenheimer's Sestet)

And what was the promise that went unfulfilled,
and why did it happen like that?
You promised to cherish, to love and obey
I promised the same yet you left me one day
and none of my pleas could persuade you to stay
so home with my two boys I sat.

But one time you tried to rejoin me and them;
by then I was slightly involved.
I'd promised another to be her escort
one day to a wedding as symbol of sorts.
I'd told you I'd promised and could not abort-
one day! then the problem'd be solved.

One day was too much for your too needy heart
I think you’d expected I'd stay
and forget a promise for now things were changed.
I couldn't and wouldn't get things rearranged
so after a month we were newly estranged.
You took our girls; you went away.

And what was the promise that went unfulfilled,
that caused you to call me last night?
You're dying and know it and facing the end,
have mem'ries to reckon with, fences to mend.
You know I still love you and think you my friend.
I wish that could make it alright.


© Lawrencealot - April 8, 2014

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