JALEEN

The Jaleen is an 8-line poem with syllable count 6-4-4-6-6-4-4-6. The rhyme pattern must be abbc addc.

Here is a sample from Poetry Patterns A-Z, a collection by Mary Harper Sowell. 

Two of a Kind

A cheerful cherub face
of infancy
smiles up at me
with this phenomenon:
the child that I embrace,
with twinkling eyes
blue as the skies,
my grandson or my son?