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Republicans Promise Shock and Awe Revolution Doublet

Republicans Promise Shock and Awe

The new president promises revolution,
And endless retribution.

The Doublet, invented by Adelaide Crapsey, is a two-line rhyming poem with compressed lines, as described and domonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/2200-doublet/

The Doublet is a little known form created by Adelaide Crapsey, (1878-1914) who is better known for her innovative "Crapsey" Cinquain. Ms. Crapsey's grounding in English metric verse combined with her studies of Asian poetry helps to make her "small poem" frames fit the English language a little better than the syllabic parameters of Asian forms. The doublet is a 2 line poem but it incorporates the title into the poem, in effect creating a 3 line verse. Some compare it to the haiku.
The elements of the Doublet are:
1. a distich with an integrated or bridging title which in effect creates a 3 line poem.
2. syllabic, each line 10 syllables or less.
3. rhymed, aa. The title is not rhymed.