new form every day... Envelope Couplet (day 34 of 365 in 365)

2011-02-03 11:20:00

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UNLIKELY ALLIES

in the face of opression a common enemy binds
moving stark differences to the back of minds
former debaters now hand in hand
bitter arguments dropped together as one to stand
against this root of unity the tyrant finds
useless is the ax that grinds



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From: http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/list.html


Envelope Couplet

The Envelope couplet is a far stricter variation of the Stave Stanza, here the first and last line use the same refrain which starts and completes the stanzas of that poem. The second and fifth line of each stanza rhyme with the refrain lines. This leaves only the centre couplet to change its rhyme. The pattern for a three stanza work would be:

A1. a. b. b. a. A2.... A1. a. c. c. a. A2.... A1. a. d. d. a. A2....



PERSONAL NOTE ON THE PROCESS
For now I just did a single stanza... I may expound on this idea.



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