Trijan Refrain

The Trijan Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of three 9-line stanzas, for a total of 27 lines. 

Line 1 is the same in all three stanzas, 

although a variation of the form is not to repeat the same line 

at the beginning of each stanza. 

In other words, the beginning line of each stanza can be different.

The first four syllables of line 5 in each stanza are repeated as the 

double-refrain for lines 7 and 8. The Trijan Refrain is a rhyming poem 

with a set meter and rhyme scheme as follows:

Rhyme scheme: ababccddc

 Meter: 8/6/8/6/8/8/4/4/8

source: shadowpoetry.com 

note: on the template below I have colored line 1,

Indicated that in the formal poem it should be first line of each verse.

in the poem below, I followed formal protocol for the first complete Trijan Refrain, then lapsed to the ever more poplular technique of not requiring first line stanza repetion.

Example Poem

Crop Circles

Crop Circles are works to amaze.

Sources of awe and hate!

For two score plus, a world-wide craze

to shock and aggravate.

It aggravates the farmers who

lose cash when fields are trampled through.

It aggravates.

It aggravates,

but there's not much that they can do.

Crop Circles are works to amaze

from ancient times 'til now.

A marvel upon which to gaze,

made in the night somehow.

They were simple in early days.

Mere circles. shown in diff'rent ways.

They were simple,

They were simple.

Complex now, harder to appraise.

Crop Circles are works to amaze

across our planet earth.

Hoaxers we know have made displays

Art forms of splendid girth.

Not all are false; most have proved true.

Could not be made by me or you.

Not all are false,

Not all are false.

Messages require a global view.

Crop formations they are now called.

Using geometry.

Mathematics leave us enthralled

with their complexity,

Math is the same in every land.

Greek, Chinese, Arab understand.

Math is the same.

Math is the same.

So global message must be planned.

Crop formations they are now named,

choose pre-historic sites

like Stonehenge and others so famed

to inscribe their delights.

Unsolved myst'ries believed to be

formed by some intelligentry.

Unsolved myst'ries,

Unsolved myst'ries

clues now distributed widely.

Since I began this poem to write.

This three-D box was made.

Of course it sprang up overnight.

It doesn't look homemade.

It baffles me what it might mean

laid out so nicely on the green.

It baffles me,

It baffles me.

If it's a hoax that will be seen.

The Mormons have not staked a claim,

nor have the Jews, I think.

Christians, Buddhists don't seek acclaim,

some odd cults may, don't blink.

We don't know how just over night

Huge shapes appear, proportions right.

We don't know how,

We don't know how.

Energy remains at each site.

Mayan themes have been oft addressed.

Celestial cycle lore

hints that earth shall soon be distressed

by changed magnetic core.

We can have help as ancients did,

in building the great pyramid

We can have help,

We can have help.

It could be; that would be splendid.

(c) Lawrencealot - July 6, 2012

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