Prompted by Poet's Place Cafe

Happy Holidays - Wrapped Refrain

Happy Holidays

This time of year when dark and cold
we're warmed by a light, bright and bold.
We adorn our homes with holly
and wreaths and wait for a jolly
old man in a flying sleigh who soars far and near
reminding us to share our love, this time of year.

Merry Christmas from me to you,
may all your hopes and dreams come true.
It may be cliché to repeat
the same wishes each year complete
with a virtual hug, but it's unanimous.
One more time, you've heard it before, Merry Christmas.
                             ~~ Judi Van Gorder


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Inspired by : "Form of the week: Wrapped Refrain"  

Verse Form Wrapped Refrain  

Wrapped Refrain is an invented stanzaic form created by Jan Turner brings each stanza full circle by repeated the first 4 syllables of the stanza as the last 4 syllables of the stanza reminiscent of the French rentrament, repeating the first phrase of the stanza as a the last phrase of the stanza. The elements of the Wrapped Refrain are:
         1. stanzaic, written in any number of sixains or octaves.
         2. syllabic, 8-8-8-8-12-12 syllables per lines when written in sixains, 14-14-8-8-8-8-14-14 syllables per line when written in octaves.
         3. rhymed, aabbcc ddeeff etc. when written in sixains and aabbccdd eeffgghh etc when written in octaves.
         4. written with each sixain repeating the first 4 syllables of L1 as the last 4 syllables of L6 or each octave repeating the first 10 syllables of L1 as the last 10 syllables of L8.