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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Teddy Poem

Teddy Poem
Type:
Structure, Subject, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement, Isosyllabic
Description:
A fixed form of three six-line verses summed up by an orphan couplet. All lines are in alexandrines. Rhyme scheme is aabbcc. There is an additional starter line which is, “Many, many years ago when Teddy was much younger than today...” The starter line occasionally varies slightly. The topic of these poems is always the adventures of a certain Theodore E. Bear, or Teddy as he is better known, who was created in the Garden of Eden, and having found the Fountain of Youth is immortal and eternally youthful.
Attributed to:
“The Dread Poet Roberts”
Origin:
American
Schematic:
Rhyme and line pattern: x aabbcc ddeeff gghhii jj
Meter: xX xX xX xX xX xX, or
xxxxxxxxxxxx
Rhythm/Stanza Length:
6
Line/Poem Length:
21
Reference:
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My Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for this most complete description that I could find.

Example Poem and Visual Template

Ode to Theodore E. Bear     (Teddy Poem)

Many, Many years ago when Teddy was much younger than today…


For many, many, years- and I have now lost count
young Theodore E. Bear, went searching for the fount!
The fountain that he found- it grants perpetual youth.
He's  been around forever- should be long of tooth.
That he has found it- any children will attest,
as silently he speaks, and puts them to their rest.

He dresses up in dresses, or may wear a bow.
He doesn't mind cross-dressing, that much all of us know.
He may don a railroad cap or a Smokey hat,
or 'bear' soft messages, that tell of this and that.
He's never embarrassed to go nude as it were
and sit about quite proudly, wearing only fur.

He goes with first responders - he's most often there-
to mitigate the panic- temper their despair.
While firemen fight the blaze- before the clean-up starts,
kids will cling to Teddy, a balm for frightened hearts.
If they sustain an "Owie",that requires a shot-
with Teddy there the pin-prick's pain is soon forgot.

And when things are all peachy, Teddy you will find
as husband's ways of saying "Thanks I'm glad you're mine."

© Lawrencealot - February 8, 2014


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