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This poem is a 12 Line Exortation.
I researched poetry types with 12 Lines to see what they are called. I found a group of poems called 12 Lines. But they are basically unstructured. I wanted some specific structure. I wanted a poem with 3 consecutive lines of rhyme, that played off 8/4/2 syllable counts and and was positive in spirit. so I created this format and call it 12 Line Exhortation. I don't think this format previously exists, as far as I know. let me know if otherwise. Here are the rules.
A 12 Line Exhortation is a poem with 12 lines, starting and ending with a 2 syllabe line that caries an exhortation, like; Get up!, Move on! Go jump! The whole syllable structure is; 2/8/8/8/4/4/8/8/8/4/4/2.
There is also a fixed rhyme scheme of: AbbbaacccddA, where the capital leters are repeated lines.

The photograph is one of a Great White Egret in flight, taken by the author in July 2012 at Battle Creek park in Maplewood, Minnesota.

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