Excellent A 12 Line Exhortation Little Poems : Find Joy by Treischel

Find Joy! Enjoy the finer things of life. Reduce and minimize the strife. The opportunities are rife For doing well. So cast a spell, And see the chances that arise, They're sitting right before your eyes -- The simple things the world supplies When you step out, And look about. Find Joy! Author Notes Yes, get out there and enjoy life. This poem is a 12 Line Exhortation. This poem is a 12 Line Exhortation, a format that I created. A 12 Line Exhortation is a poem with 12 lines, starting and ending with a 2 syllable line that caries an exhortation, like; Get up!, Move on! Go jump! The whole syllable structure is: 2/8/8/8/4/4/8/8/8/4/4/2. There is also a fixed rhyme scheme of: AbbbaacccddA, where the capital letters are repeated lines. I researched poetry types with 12 Lines to see what they are called. I found a group of poems called 12 Lines. But they are basically unstructured. I wanted some specific structure. I wanted a poem with 3 consecutive lines of rhyme, that played off 8/4/2 syllable counts and was positive in spirit. So I created this format and called it 12 Line Exhortation. I don't think this format previously exists, as far as I know. This photograph was taken by the author himself diuring a scarecrow exhibit at the Minnesota Arboretum located in Chanhassen, on Octrober 16, 2014.

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