Scallop

• The Scallop is an invented stanzaic form written in sixains. It was created by Marie L Blanche Adams.
  
  The Scallop is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of sixains.
• syllabic, 2-4-6-6-4-2 syllables per line.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme abccba deffed ghiihg etc.

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

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

My example poem

What Need for Rhyme    (Scallop)

What need

have you for rhyme?

Is there a purpose served,

are rhyming words deserved

all of the time?

Indeed!

If I

should someday choose

to forego rhyming verse

my spirit would be worse

and I would lose,

so why?

© Lawrencealot -  April 4, 2014

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Scupham Stanza

It was created by British poet, Peter Scupham.
It is
isosyllabic
stanzaic, written in any number of sextets,
rhymed: abccba
meter optional

Example Poem

Waisted!     (Scupham Stanza)

The Scupham rhyme is like our Cathie Jung.

Who is in the Guiness World Record book.

The stanza's spread by rhyme  that pinches some

When to the middle you let rhyming come.

That could be construed as the hour-glass look.

A form for which this septarian's sung.

© Lawrencealot - November 9, 2013

Author's Note

The smallest waist belongs to Cathie Jung (USA, b. 1937),

who stands at 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) and has a corseted waist measuring

38.1 cm (15 in). Un-corseted, it measures 53.34 cm (21 in).

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(Decasyllabic version)