View Single Post
  #5  
Unread 10-18-2009, 07:08 PM
Maryann Corbett's Avatar
Maryann Corbett Maryann Corbett is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Posts: 9,668
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Orwn Acra View Post
Since we're talking about unusual rhyme, could someone please explain to me how you would notate the rhyme scheme of this inappropriate Gavin Ewart poem?
I'd call it xaxa, with the x's leaning in a rhyming direction in 1 and 3, but not 2.

A lot of quatrains with this scheme, if they're alternating tetrameter/trimeter like the ED above, are easier to think of as split-up fourteeners.
Reply With Quote