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Short Particular Measure

Type:  

Structure

 
Description: 

Another iambic pattern with mixed trimeter and tetrameter. Lines 1, 2, 4, and 5 are three feet long and rhyme with each other. Lines 3 and 6 are four feet long and rhyme.

 
Schematic: 
Rhyme: aabaab
Meter:
xX xX xX
xX xX xX
xX xX xX xX
xX xX xX
xX xX xX
xX xX xX xX
 
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 

6

 
See Also:  

Reverse Habbie, Rime Coulée, Sestet, Standard Habbie

 
Status: 

Incomplete

 

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