Form Created by John Madison Shaw, Sr., aka Arkbear on Allpoetry
MUST
have 5 Quatrains -
No Set
Line length
No Set
Meter
The Nth
line of each quatrain must rhyme with each other.
Letter
use restrictions.
No
letter ( a ) in 1st L of each Q -
No
letter ( b ) in 2nd L of each Q -
No
letter ( c ) in 3rd L of each Q -
No
letter ( d ) in 4th L of each Q -
ALL 1st
L's must have same end Rhyme -
ALL 2nd
L's must have same end Rhyme -
ALL 3rd
L's must have same end Rhyme -
ALL 4th
L's must have same end Rhyme -
Flow is
a MUST!
Metaphors
are a MUST!
Beautiful
Poetic voice is a MUST!
There
can be no fixed template for the form, for line length is NOT specified
Most I
have seen have been pentameter or longer.
Since one can choose any line-length and meter
I have chosen Iambic tetrameter for this work.
Example
Poem
Absurdlutely My
Beloved (Phyquain)
I'll mow my way
through drive-way snow
I'll shovel through the growing grass
I'll throw the pigs
at angry birds
or fly-fish
somewhere in a blimp.
I'll cry when
comedy's the show
and laugh at church
and scratch my ass.
I'll roller skate in
buff'lo herds
I'll teach
ballooning to a shrimp.
I might return
before I go,
or teach at school
that has no class
or write a poem
without words
or book a nun that
needs a pimp.
I might invite the
firefly's glow
to brighten up each
underpass
or make all homeboys
into nerds.
I could teach
rattlesnakes to primp.
These I might do,
you'll never know.
However you will be
my lass
forever plus about
two-thirds.
Always will I remain
your imp.
© Lawrencealot -
January 22, 2013
Since
one can choose any line-length and meter
I have
chosen Iambic tetrameter for this work.
Visual
Template
