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title: Love Silver Slipper

title: Love Silver Slipper

I met my fate that date
Love came at first sight, light
She is still here, my dear

The Lady's Slipper verse, introduced by Viola Gardner. is three lines of iambic trimeter with internal rhyme in each line, as described and demonstrated in the following link: https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1199-metric-forms-from-pathways-for-the-p... .

The Lady's Slipper is a verse form that plays with internal rhyme within a very short line. The tiny poem with the close rhyme lends itself to silliness. It was originated by Viola Gardner The elements of The Lady's Slipper are:
1. a tristich, a poem in 3 lines.
2. metered, iambic trimeter lines. uS-uS-uS.
3. composed with internal rhyme in each line.
4. designed for the last line to leave the reader thinking, questioning.