Whitney

WHITNEY

This titled syllabic form, created by Betty Ann Whitney, has exactly seven lines.

Syllable Pattern:  3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 7

Example:

In the Garden Year

Voted best 

Among the months 

May and June 

Sprout root and grow. 

Soon will dance 

On wiry stems 

A blend of upturned blossoms.

Betty Ann Whitney, Wesley Chapel, FL 

Pasted from <http://sol-magazine-projects.org/sol/poetryforms.htm#whitney>

My Example Poem

Introducing Summer  (Whitney)

Trampolines

and Bar-B-ques

and new mown

grass are mighty

fine, but still,

bikinis I

like best; hope I always will.

© Lawrencealot - April 15, 2014