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Chittagong - Form of the Week Tripadi

Chittagong

Where giant ships journey to die
hidden away from prying eyes
to be chipped bit by bit, recycled ships.

The third world demolition sight,
environmental waste ignored blight,
Bangladesh laborers tend to their chore.
                             ~~Judi Van Gorder

Notes: ▼

Verse Form: Tripadi   Tripadi in the Bengali Region, now known as Bangladesh, is considered one line in three parts even though it is almost always written in three lines. So I guess you might say, each tercet is simply a full sentence in 26 or 20 syllables broken into lines.

The elements of the Tripadi are:
         1. stanzaic, almost always in tercets. A poem can have any number of tercets.
         2. syllabic, 8-8-10 syllables per line and sometimes 6-6-8 syllables per line.
         3. rhymed, aax bbx

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