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Mad Cow

Type:  

Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement, Isosyllabic

 
Description: 

Written in twelve-syllable lines, the Mad Cow is a pastoral of seven quintains.

 
Attributed to: 

Sebastian “Duke” Delorange

 
Origin: 

American

 
Schematic: 
In alexandrines with rhyme scheme:

ababc cdede fgfgh hijij klklm mnono eieio
 
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 

5

 
Line/Poem Length: 

35

 
See Also:  

Allegory, Bucolic, Georgic, Mad Calf, Pastoral

 
Status: 

Incomplete

 

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