| Spiritual Poetry posted August 9, 2018 |
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A villanelle about the coming battle
The Arresting Hook
by Henry King
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Rhyming Poem contest entry
 Recognized |
An airplane assigned to an aircraft carrier has an arresting or tail hook which catches the cable stretched across the landing deck that will stop the airplane.
A Villanelle is a rhyming poem of six stanzas. The first five stanzas are tercets and the sixth stanza is a quatrain. The rhyme pattern: A B A in the tercets and A B A A in the quatrain. The Villanelle's first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated alternately as the third line of the second through fifth stanzas and as the third and fourth line of sixth stanza. In this poem, I altered those lines without changing the rhyme pattern or vision.
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and 2 member cents. A Villanelle is a rhyming poem of six stanzas. The first five stanzas are tercets and the sixth stanza is a quatrain. The rhyme pattern: A B A in the tercets and A B A A in the quatrain. The Villanelle's first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated alternately as the third line of the second through fifth stanzas and as the third and fourth line of sixth stanza. In this poem, I altered those lines without changing the rhyme pattern or vision.
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