Mellowtune (@MoonshineNoire)

My poetry style is called the Mellowtune:

--First line of the poem which is repeated at times mentioned below has eight syllables

--Line B (1)contains seven syllables

--Line C(1) contains five syllables

--Line C(2) contains five syllables and rhymes with C (1)

--Line B(2) contains seven and rhymes with B(1)

--Last line is same as the first except for a word you can change in it.


An example of this would be:


For the love of a musician,

Playing a sinuous lay,

On a star-shined night,

Whispering twilight,

In the cher, nebulous May,

For the heart of a musician,

I drank his passion and charm,

Steadily and then,

Heavily again,

Tune changes, sudden alarm,

For the smile of a musician,

Who's depressive gaze saddens,

My very heart and soul,

As they are swallowed whole*,

A moon that slowly blackens,

For the throe of a musician.


In the previous example, I used three stanzas to make it clearer.


Example No.2:


A beau highwayman came riding,

Upon a select racehorse,

Riding down the lane,

With purloined gold chains,

He stole from an old dame's purse,

A fair highwayman came riding,

Up to my front door, knocking,

Offering to court,

Love jusqu'à la mort,

Fervour and gold, a'trying,

A glum highwayman came riding,

Before deciding not to anymore.**



I made it simple so you can still have fun with it.

In this last example, I added a line at the end which we can all agree was necessary. That's something I've left as a choice, same as the changing of a word in the repeated line, you don't have to. Also the number of syllables is flexible, instead of eight you can use nine, instead of five, six if you find a perfect word that has a larger syllable count.

*The extra syllable is not there by mistake.

**Like I've explained, an extra line at the end is okay for closure.

This style is dedicated to Spencer_Paton for kind of being the reason I even came up with a different style.

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