I had taken my car in for service, when I spotted this beauty out on the dealer's lot. I drooled and dreamed. Then I walked up to it and read the pricing. Ouch! Oh well, it was fun to dream.

This poem is a Dahquain.
I came across this format when I reviewed damommy's poem, Here I come, that she had submitted for the potlatch club.
The Dahquain form was invented by D.A. Hemingway, aka, DianeAH on Allpoetry.com. Therefor the form is a derivation from her initials, and the standard quatrain. It features a unique rhyming pattern that uses repeating rhyme words (word refrains)

The meter is iambic Tetrameter written in Quatrains.
The rhyme scheme is:
axAA bxBB cxCC ....dd, etc. As many stanzas as the poet desires

Minimum of 4 stanzas (including couplet),

Ends with a separate rhyming couplet. (So the poem has 14 lines or more)
The capital letters indicate that the words are identical.

In the rhyme pattern indicated by axAA bxBB cxCC dxDD, the lines indicated with capitals contain word refrains.

This photograph was taken by the author himself on August 9, 2018.

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