Monday, July 28, 2014

RISPETTO

This poem has 8 lines of iambic tetrameter (8 syllables per line, 4 beats).  The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d.  The only example I can find is below.

Fabrication

A Persian rug lies on the floor
to warm my feet in wintertime
since hardwood floor beside the door
collects each speck of dirt and grime.
I'd like to know how Persians weave; 
philosophies that they believe; 
perhaps one day a Persian's loom
will weave a rug to warm my tomb.


(The source, which is Lee Ann Russell's
handbook, How to Write Poetry, 1991,
credits no author.) 

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