I mixed up my rhymes: 3 stanza's on the top may not be a standard... I don't know but it felt right to me...

The lines under the asterisk change rhyme... the last four lines are in line with the grouping but also have a flavor of mono rhyme added... Go Figure.


The Minute Poem is a poem that follows the "8,4,4,4" syllable count structure. It usually has 3 stanzas that are exactly the same. So: 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables.

A traditional Minute Poem has 12 lines total. It has 60 syllables. It is written in a strict iambic meter. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff. However, for this contest there is not a requirement to follow the iambic meter rhyme scheme only to have a rhyme

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