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Winner! WCramp for 01/25/13: Chinese takeaway produces a scary bill! Poetry, Huitain Style
I really want it! I will say,
I crave, I fancy, it I need;
I must have Chinese takeaway.

Along a slippery road with heed,
claim a spooky invoice, dismay!
Say what? This price is way too high,
pay twenty-one dollars? No way!
Comes with extra spoons? My o my....


Line count: 8
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New Prompt: Use in your story or poem the following words, and bold them for tomorrow's judge:

a spooky invoice
Chinese takeaway
slippery road
spoons

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Poetry style: Huitain
About
This is a very old French verse form and as the name suggests consists of one eight (huit)-line stanza with 8 syllables in each line. At the same time a similar form was emerging from Spain. There is no doubt as too the root, with the Spanish version covering a similar rhyme pattern.

How to
The form was written based on three rhymes, one of which appeared four times. I have put the rhyming scheme for each of the four methods of writing this poetic form. The Huitain A's are the most popular.

French Huitain A
a. b. a. b. b. c. b. c.

French Huitain B
a. b. b. a. a. c. a. c.

Spanish Huitain A
a. b. a. b. a. c. a. c.


Spanish Huitain B
a. b. b. a. a. c. c. a.

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