new form every day... Burns Stanza (day 11 of 365 in 365)

2011-01-11 09:52

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SHARE THE LIGHT

I can see life in its beauty
to do so is my solemn duty
capturing its essence truly
the way mornings mostly bright
giving us chance act newly
and share with the world inner light



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Burns Stanza (aka Standard Habbie)

In this form Burns makes the first three lines rhyme and the fifth. The fourth and sixth lines become the second rhyming pair.

The pattern is thus....
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x b
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x b




PERSONAL SIDE NOTE ABOUT THE PROCESS...

When I am doing these rhyming forms I have a tendency to write the first line easily and then build the rest of the poem off of the best rhymes that go with the first. For this poem I actually did the end of line rhymes first (beauty, duty, truly, bright, newly, and light) and then build the poem around those words in that line order.



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