Bref Double
Type:
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Structure, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic
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Description:
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A fourteen-line French form. Like many French forms,
the rules are a bit complex. It is composed of three quatrains and a couplet,
all isosyllabic. It has three rhymes: a, b, and c. It has five lines that are
not part of the rhyme scheme. The c rhyme ends each quatrain. The a and b
rhymes are found twice each somewhere within the three quatrains and once in
the couplet.
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Impressions:
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Have fun; it's French.
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Origin:
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French
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Schematic:
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Some sample rhyme schemes would be:
abxc abxc xxxc ab,
xaxc xbxc xbac ba, xabc xaxc xbxc ab, etc. |
Rhythm/Stanza Length:
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4
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Line/Poem Length:
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14
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from <http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/000/25.shtml>
My thanks to Charles
L. Weatherford for his fine Poetrybase resource.
My example poem
A Merchant
Mariner (Bref Double)
A soliloquy mumbled
while aboard a ship
addressed issues
encountered by conscripted men:
the comforts found
in surroundings I'd known, no thoughts
of danger real or
imagined- not everyday.
With thoughts of
carnality, adventure, hardship,
rewards of sharing
bounty, succeeding and then
returning home after
I've traveled, unraveled
the wonderful
mystr'ies that might hold me in sway.
The captain,
querulous, demands most constant yield
from every man. The
old first mate so hates the king
he wrings more than
mere duty from men on his watch.
The nation we're
helping will repay us some day.
I came home a hero.
It was quite a long trip.
But now that those
days are passed, I'd do it again.
© Lawrencealot -
April 18, 2014
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