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The Compound Word Verse consists of fifteen lines broken into five tercets (three line stanzas) with the last line of each stanza ending in a compound word whose common stem is taken from the title. The rhyme scheme is aax, bbx, ccx, ddx, eex, where x is unrhymed, and the syllabic pattern is 8, 8, 3 for each stanza, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/compound.html

http://popularpoetryforms.blogspot.com/2013/03/compound-word-verse.html

You can blame, er, I mean credit Margaret R. Smith for contriving this little word twister.

Let the creativity flow from your soul!
Dave
"The Poet's Place "