Excellent A modified Respitto Poem Little Poems : Creature Comfort by Treischel

Creature Comfort (A modified Respitto Poem) A little green grasshopper rests On a pretty Black-eyed Susan It seems to have taken the best Shelter from hoppity cruisin' The yellow petal sheds some shade On tiny creature from the glade Off he jumped with his own power As I bent to view this flower. Author Notes A walk in the park with my grandson resulted in him spotting this flower and bug. The wildflower is a Black-eyed Susan. He got all excited and asked me to take its picture and write a poem. So here it is. I wrote this poem is a Rispetto style, but played with it a bit. The Rispetto is a classic Italian form consisting of only 8 lines divided into two quatrains. The meter is iambic tetrameter: daDUMdaDUMdaDUMdaDUM. The distinguishing characteristic of this form is that the rhyme scheme changes from abab alternate-line rhyming in stanza one to ccdd couplet rhyming in the second. I thought, as long as the rhyming changes, why not change and alternate the meter too, between iambic and trochee. So in Stanza 1 I have the meter set as: iamb/troch/iamb/troch. While in the second stanza I have: iamb/iamb/troch/troch. Now there's some alternation! This photograph was taken by the author on July 11, 2013.

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