The Triquint

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As you can probably guess by now, based on the poem forms that I'm sharing this week, I have a lot of fun with poems that rely on word or syllable counts. There's a challenge to the syllable and word counts that fascinates me, but rhyme structure doesn't. I don't quite understand it, but that's how I roll. *g*

So today we're looking at the triquint. According to the Shadow Poetry site, this form works in the following way ::

Triquint, a poem for created by Sylvia A. Feeley, which consists of 3 verses, 5 lines each. Lines 3 and 4 of verse 1 (Refrain) repeat in verses 2 and 3. The syllable count for each stanza is 9, 7, 5, 3, 1 and has an aaAAb rhyme scheme.

I will say that when I wrote the poem below, I actually fought with it to get this done, particularly because of the rhyme scheme. But I persevered, and have found this to be a form that I want to explore more in the future, despite the rhyming. LOL!


"cats"

life with four feline masters is rough,
interestingly enough.
time to call their bluff,
grab some scruff.
split!

just letting them sleep with me is tough,
i cannot sleep in the buff!
time to call their bluff,
grab some scruff.
quit!

cannot eat pizza or a cream puff,
gabe just tries to eat the stuff.
time to call their bluff,
grab some scruff.
shit!

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