More Poet's Place Poems

Too Many Men with a Gun

Too many madmen with a gun

Too many madmen with a gun
I say again, it’s not much fun
The NRA keeps lying
Politicians just stall and stall
In the end, it’s no close call
Too many people dying

Rime Couée is a tail-rhymed verse form of 12th century Provencal troubadours. Though it originated in France, it is thought to be the predecessor of the more popular Scot form, the Burns Stanza.

The elements of Rime Couée are:

stanzaic, written in any number of sixains, each made up of two tercets.
accentual, folk meter of normal speech. L1,L2, L4, L5 are longer lines of a similar length, L3 and L6 are shorter lines of the same length.

rhymed, rhyme scheme aabccb, ddeffe etc.