TYBURN
The tyburn is a 6-line form in which the first 4 lines consist of a single 2-syllable word. These 4 must rhyme. The last 2 lines rhyme and contain 9 syllables each. Syllables 5 - 8 in each of the last 2 lines repeat the words given in the first 4 lines, as demonstrated below. No title appears to be required.
I'm sorry to report that every example I find for the tyburn is a bit too risque. Here's one such:
Boring
Snoring
Warring
Whoring
Long life with a boring-snoring sod
Made the wife a warring, whoring broad.
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