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Donald Trump Doshrimba

Donald Trump Writing com

Former leader Donald the Trump Screaming
Deep State Plotting Against Donald Scheming
Is he just a Old Man seeming
consumed by his faded glory dreaming

the deep state
is indeed
plotting against him
he is not paranoid


Filled with such dark fantasies
Consumed with the big lie out to get him
public people media don’t care
consumed by his faded glory dreaming


The Dorsimbra, created by Eve Braden, Frieda Dorris and Robert Simonton, consists of four very different quatrains, The first is written in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme pattern. The second is written in free verse with short, snappy lines. The third is written in blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). The first line is repeated as the last line, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

Stanza One: Four lines of Shakespearean sonnet (iambic pentameter [daDUM
daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM] rhymed abab).

Stanza Two: Four lines of short and snappy free verse.

Stanza Three: Four lines of iambic pentameter blank verse (un-rhymed verse),
where the last line repeats the first line of Stanza One.


Mary Margaret Carlisle’ Sol Magazine is a terrific source for poetic forms.
For this week’s poetic form, In-form Poet is attempting to make rhymers and non-rhymers alike happy. Will we succeed? You’ll have to tell us. But
how? Why? Because we will be writing the Dorsimbra.

So, what is a Dorsimbra?

According to Sol Magazine:

The Dorsimbra, a poetry form created by Eve Braden, Frieda Dorris and Robert Simonton, is a set form of three stanzas of four lines each. Since the Dorsimbra requires three different sorts of form writing, enjambment can help to achieve fluidity between stanzas, while internal rhymes and near-rhymes can help tie the stanzas together.

Stanza One: Four lines of Shakespearean sonnet (iambic pentameter [daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM] rhymed abab).
Stanza Two: Four lines of short and snappy free verse.
Stanza Three: Four lines of iambic pentameter blank verse (un-rhymed verse), where the last line repeats the first line of Stanza One.
Here’s my attempt (and yes, you are quite right for noting that I love to use epigraphs. You can do so too, but don’t feel as if you have to.):