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Form of the Week Octain Refrain Waiting Delivery

Waiting Delivery

My new laptop soon will arrive
I've wanted to buy for a while
I researched to choose the best style.

It will become a busy hive.
It took some money but honey,
it will help my poetry jive.

So now I am wearing a smile,
my new laptop will soon arrive.
                   ~~Judi Van Gorder


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"Form of the week: Octain Refrain"  
Octain Refrain  is an invented form created in 2010 by English poet Luke Prater. and originally found at ShadowPoetry.com. This is an 8 by 8 frame, 8 lines with 8 syllables each, the first line repeated in the last line.

The elements of the Octain Refrain are:
         1. a poem in 8 lines made up of 2 tercets followed by a couplet.
         2. each line is 8 syllables, the meter of which can be iambic tetrameter, trochaic tetrameter or no particular pattern at the discretion of the poet.
         3. rhymed, rhyme scheme Abb a(c/c)a bA, L5 has internal rhyme.
         4. written repeating L1 as L8 in refrain.
         5. can be repeated making a poem of 16 lines and that is called High Octain.