Author Notes
Sometimes that clear sky the weatherman promised for your outdoors activity gets interupted, delayed, or canceled. In this instance, the sky cleared in about 15 minutes. But frequently that's not the case. At any rate, this prompted the poem.
I didn't enter the Rictameter contest because it disallowed rhyming
This poem is a Rictameter.
A rictameter is a nine-line poem. Each line has a specific number of syllables. The first line has two syllables. The next line has four. The next line has six. The next line has eight. The next line has ten. And we work our way down again (8,6,4,2)
The last line is the same as the first line, while the two syllable line also becomes the title.
So it looks like this.
Line 1: Two syllables
Line 2: Four syllables
Line 3: Six syllables
Line 4: Eight syllables
Line 5: Ten syllables
Line 6: Eight syllables
Line 7: Six syllables
Line 8: Four syllables
Line 9: Two syllables - Same Line As First Line
Rhyming is optional for this format. The best display of this style is when centered, for then a nice ornamental shape appears.
For this poem I chose to rhyme. The rhyme scheme is: abcbabcba
This picture was taken by the author himself.
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