Aaaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!
by cricketjeff on March 27, 2010. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
Dactylic poetry pleases me
Rhyming these feminines teases me
Send me an answer that eases me
Until then I do not understand
How this scheme that you seem to have planned
Can be wrought in a poem that’s grand
Imperfectly rhyming is horrid
My language would be a bit florid
And I’d get a pain in my forehead
Don’t do it my friendly test setter
Please find a rhyme scheme that’s much better
Then send it post haste by form letter
Author notes
1-3 in dactylic trimeter. (/xx /xx /xx)
4-6 in anapestic trimeter. (xx/ xx/ xx/)
7-9 in amphibrachic trimeter (x/x x/x x/x)
10-12 antibacchus (//x //x //x)
Rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc dad
But, I cannot rhyme a dactyl with an anapaest I’m afraid so you better DQ this
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The Antibacchuses aren’t great and you have to pronounce forehead “forrid”, but
there are a number of dialects where that happens anyway
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