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Going to the Lake On the lake, on a hazy day Enjoying the sun and sand. On a scorching mid-summer day Listening to a great band. While eating a picnic lunch Looking at the sunflowers. Thinking about eating some brunch Perhaps drinking a rum punch. It was too humid, time to get going On the epic road trip, easygoing SAND, LAKE, HAZE, SUNFLOWERS, PICNIC, HUMID, ROAD TRIP, SCORCHING This too is a rhyming poem, and it has three stanzas: 2 quatrains and a couplet. The line length is based on syllabic count as opposed to meter, but it could very easily lend itself to tetrameter for the quatrains and pentameter for the couplet. In summary, the Ravenfly is: • A decastich (10-line poem) written in 3 stanzas: 2 quatrains and 1 couplet. • Syllabic count: 8-7-8-7, 8-7-8-7, 10-10 • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ee • Meter is optional https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/2253-forms-unique-to-poets-collective-and... on the lake ravenfly On the lake, on a hazy day Enjoying the sun and sand. On a scorching mid-summer day Listening to a great band. While eating a picnic lunch Looking at the sunflowers. Thinking about eating some brunch Perhaps drinking a rum punch. It was too humid, time to get going On the epic road trip, easygoing SAND, LAKE, HAZE, SUNFLOWERS, PICNIC, HUMID, ROAD TRIP, SCORCHING This too is a rhyming poem, and it has three stanzas: 2 quatrains and a couplet. The line length is based on syllabic count as opposed to meter, but it could very easily lend itself to tetrameter for the quatrains and pentameter for the couplet. In summary, the Ravenfly is: • A decastich (10-line poem) written in 3 stanzas: 2 quatrains and 1 couplet. • Syllabic count: 8-7-8-7, 8-7-8-7, 10-10 • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ee • Meter is optional https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/2253-forms-unique-to-poets-collective-and... |