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"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."
Gustave Flaubert
"A poem is a communication from one soul to another that makes one or both hearts sing."
Walter Mayes
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It’s Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas
“There’s no snow in Florida. How do you know it’s Christmas time?” My aunt, who was down here visiting from Michigan, asked me.
My mom, a happy Floridian said, “We don’t need no stinkin’ snow!” 
“We have lights, music, and time with family and that’s enough for us,” I responded.
After more discussion on the pros and cons of snow, we decided the Christmas season was more of the memories, laughter and feelings than the snow on the ground.
This month I wanted to share a couple poetry forms reminiscent of Christmas.
Carol
Yes, this is/was also a song. Many poetry forms were sung in the past. Songs and poetry are cousins who play at each other’s houses quite often. In fact, the chorus that you find in songs, is emulated within the carol poetry form.
This form is around six hundred or so years old.
I found a couple different variations of this form—although the variations most likely go beyond the two I’m sharing, a 1) traditional, and a 2) blend of traditional and modern.
Carol Variation #1
MUST HAVES
--Amount of lines: 24.
--Amount of stanzas: 4 or 8 (depending on if you create a couplet stanza (the burden) and quatrain stanza (the texte) = 8, or leave them together in one larger stanza = 4).
--Rhyme: aabbba or aa bbba (see above).
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic: Any (but it is a carol, so usually religious, family time, joyful, etc.)
--Meter: Any, just keep consistent. Lines 1-5 longer than the last line, but use the same meter. Line 6 is shorter, so shorten the meter used for the others for this line.
Carol Variation #2
MUST HAVES
--Rhyme: An example (depending on how many stanzas you choose to have—mindful of the couplets, quatrains and refrains):
a
a
a (repeat of line 1)
a (repeat of line 2)
b
b
b
a (repeat of line 1)
c
c
c
a (repeat of line 2)
d
d
d
a (repeat of line 1)
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic: Any (but it is a carol, so…)
--Meter: Any, just keep consistent throughout the poem.
--Amount of stanzas: Any, but usually alternate between a couplet (where the lines are used as a refrain) and a quatrain.
--Amount of lines: Dependant on the amount of stanzas.
Christina’s View
This is a more recent form from a familiar poet to this newsletter, Christina R. Jussaume, who created this acrostic-style poetry form almost ten years ago.
MUST HAVES
--Amount of lines: 15.
--Amount of stanzas: Five. Three lines each stanza. Each line begins with the following letters in this order: CHRIST IS SAVIOUR.
--Meter: Eight syllables each line.
--Topic: Religious/Spiritual.
--Must rhyme.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any rhyme scheme.
SOURCE NOTES:
http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/000/32.shtml
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2740826.Christina_R_Jussaume
http://the.a.b.c.of.poetry.styles.patthepoet.com/index.html
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