Roger's Refrain

This is a form invented on AllPoetry.com by Rockape 

It is written in iambic tetrameter with

Any number of mono-rhyme quatrain stanzas, and

and ending rhyming couplet.

It is stanzaic, with quatrains, each stanza being mono-rhymed with the last half of line one, being the repeated refrain, as the last half of line 4.
There is no limit to the number of stanzas but the poem must end with a rhyming couplet.

Example  Poem

I Lost My Kid     (Roger's Refrain)

On a long trip I lost my kid.
Responsible I am- yet did
and not because he went and hid.
'T'was late at night I lost my kid.

Me and my boys driving quite far
It would be three day trip by car.
It's cool at night; that's how things are
I like that when driving quite far.

In Rock Springs WY I'd stopped to pee.
Got back in checked back seat to see,
indeed my boys were there with me.
I went back where I'd stopped to pee.

There I bought some coffee to go,
got in and went; I don't go slow.
After an hour got tired you know
Even with the coffee to go.

Pulled off and slept 'til morning light.
That way passed last hour of the night.
My Gary said, Where's Bob tonight?
I thought him there, 'til morning light.

He had jumped out to take a pee.
and walked to the John don't you see?
While I was buying that coffee
unknown to me, to take a pee.

I sped back to the coffee shop
without my seeing single cop
who'd been told to locate and stop
one whose kid's in the coffee shop.

There Bob a grin from ear to ear
A donut in each hand was clear
this adventure had posed no fear.
Powdered sugar from ear to ear.

For dad, there was a bit of fright,

for son,  adventure and delight.

(c) Lawrencealot - August 24, 2012


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Rubai - Rubaiyat

A single quatrain is a Rubai, several together become a Rubaiyat.

Rubāʿī" (رباعي) is a poetry style, the Arabic term for "quatrain". It is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or its derivative form in English and other languages. The plural form of the word, rubāʿiyāt (رباعیات ), often anglicised rubaiyat, is used to describe a collection of such quatrains.[1]

There are a number of possible rhyme schemes to the rubaiyat form, e.g. AABA, AAAA.[2] In Persian verse, a ruba'i visually contains only four lines, its rhyme falling at the middle and end of the lines.

The verse form AABA as used in English verse is known as the Rubaiyat Quatrain due to its use by Edward FitzGerald in his famous 1859 translation, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Algernon Charles Swinburne, one of the first admirers of FitzGerald's translation of Khayyam'smedieval Persian verses, was the first to imitate the stanza form, which subsequently became popular and was used widely, as in the case of Robert Frost's 1922 poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

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Example Poem

Free Agent  (Rubaiyat)

Testosterone Tom was a monstrous man

raised in the arctic where caribou ran.

When he ate there weren't left-overs;  Tom'd

never heard of baseball, bagels, or flan.

Like a fish to an aquarium  sent,

or a monkey to a zoo, our Tom spent

his first weeks in Maine looking for control.

Slowly festering smarts would now augment.

Tom learned of the NFL, why quibble.

For this quest he had no need to dribble.

For his size there was no counter-balance,

We'll not divulge teams taking a nibble.

     © Lawrencealot - December 29, 2012

I used the following words, one per line per contest requirements

TESTOSTERONE , ARCTIC,  LEFT-OVERS, BASEBALL,  AQUARIUM, MONKEY, CONTROL           

FESTERING,  QUIBBLE, QUEST,  COUNTER-BALANCE, DIVULGE

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