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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