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Frayed Feisty Threads - Book IV
A Quatrain Float, Please 11/25/2015
A quatrain evolves from thoughts unwound, floating in a pool;
From pen or pencil now extinct, computer keystrokes rule.
Fingers tapping alphabet keys, today's skill newly honed;
This verse a simple snippet of buoyant thoughts postponed.
11/25/2015
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Form Information ▶︎Syllables Per Line: 14 14 14 14
Total # Syllables: 56
Total # Lines: 4
Total # Words: 36
Notes:
Quatrain: consists of four lines. Many types exist; varied meter and rhyme schemes. Most frequently used of all types of stanzas.
Ballads:type of quatrain.
Hymn Meter: type of quatrain found in hymns.
Common Measure: four-foot iambic line alternates with three-foot iambic line: rhyming scheme is abcb.
Reference
Mayes, Frances. 1994. "Traditional and Open Forms." In The Discovery of Poetry, by Frances Mayes, edited by Ted Buchholz. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace College Punlishers.
Posting Information ▶︎ This poem was written as a practice assignment from the above referenced book. |
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