Cromorna

• Cromorna is a verse form that has compact lines and exacting meter and rhyme developed by Viola Berg.
  
  The Cromorna is:
• stanzaic, written in 3 quatrains.
• syllabic, with 5-3-5-3 5-3-5-3 5-3-5-3 syllables per line.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme abab cbcb dbdb.

Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1882#baccresieze

•  

My Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful resource at PMO

My example Poem

Diverse     (Cromorna)

An electric arc

could have been

the requisite spark

way back when.

And that ignition

led to men

and our condition,

now and then.

If so, I suppose

we must yen

for each one of those

who our ken.

© Lawrencealot - March 18, 2014

Visual Template

5/3 Meter

A poem consisting of an odd number of quatrains

I have no idea if this form has been otherwise named, if you know please advise.

Alternating lines of 5 and 3 syllables, where

the odd lines consist of  an IAMB and an ANAPEST

da-DUM da-DUM-da

and the even lines consist of a DACTYL 

DUM-da-DUM

Each stanza uses individual rhyme pattern -abab

where the b-rhymes are always feminine

The first stanza is repeated as the final stanza.

Visual Template