true love walks through the door Huitain

True Love Walks Through the Door Huitian

In this corrupted modern age,
It is hard to find one’s soul mate.
Hard to make one’s daily wage.
Many people never find a mate,
Thinking that is just their sad fate.
Then love walks through the door,
While working for minimum wage,
Your love walks into the bookstore.


not based on a true story


New Prompt: Write a Huitain. You can find information here: "The Huitain."
The topic is yours to choose.

Entries must not exceed 40 lines for poetry. Your word or line count MUST appear in your entry post in the Cramp forum.

Deadline:
22 hours 46 minutes 24 seconds

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The Huitain.
The Huitain is a French form. The Italian Octave developed by Aristote and Torquato Tasso, stood model for the Huitain.

In the 14th century the huitains were actually written as a verse of a primitive ballade. The first known author of the Huitain is Guillaume de Machaut. The early huitain had two rhymes in its rhyme scheme (ABABBAAB)

One century later, the definitive form of the huitain was formed. The huitain contains eight lines, with eight syllables per line.(ABABBCBC)

An example of this form:
The sun shines, but the wind is cold
On this beautiful April day
Minds processing secrets unfold
Even I don’t know what to say
A warning for the game you play
Before someone starts to throw dirt
Feelings – pain – it turns my day grey
I hate being used, being hurt.



Other forms of the huitain that were signalized are:

un huitain enlace an enclosed huitain which has a rhyme scheme: AABAABCC

le huitain romantique, the romantic huitain with a rhyme scheme: ABABCCCB

le huitain quadripertitius caudatus – I don’t know the proper English name for it – but I can give you the rhyme scheme: AAABCCCB

Then… there is also a false huitain, built up out of two quatrains with a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCD.