Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Pivot Requirement

A two-couplet poem where the first couplet states a thought and the second flips it, or shows the other side. It is syllabic, showing some relation to many Japanese poems by alternating seven and five-syllable lines, but has rhyme. The rhyme can be as rhymed couplets or merely the second and fourth line of the poem.

Rhyme: ab cb or aa bb
Meter:
xxxxxxx
xxxxx

xxxxxxx
xxxxx

2

4

Incomplete

Choka, Waka