Dorsimbra
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement | | |
| Description: | | This form was created by people associated with Sols
Magazine. The form is a set of three quatrains:
- A Sicilian quatrain (four lines iambic pentameter rhymed abab),
- A quatrain of short and snappy free verse, and
- A quatrain of blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter).
The twefth line is the same as the first.
The creators of this form suggest the use of enjambment, internal rhymes, and near-rhymes to bind the three stanzas. | | |
| Attributed to: | | Eve Braden, Frieda Dorris and Robert
Simonton | | |
| Schematic: | | Rhyme scheme: abab xxxx xxxx
Sections one and three are iambic pentameter:
xX xX xX xX xX | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 4 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 12 | | |
| See Also: | | Blank Verse, Descort, Envelope Verse, Prose Poems, Sicilian Quatrain | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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