Can’t see the picture from out here,
and cannot hear what’s being said.
Please let us in, now there’s a dear.
You block our view. Please move your head.
That comfy chair looks really nice.
Our fur or feathers we won’t shed.
Now, I have said this nicely twice –
You block our view. Please move your head.
We see the table filled with snacks.
Can we come in and share the spread?
Or maybe bring us snacks in sacks.
You block our view. Please move your head.
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Author Notes
A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza consisting of 4 lines), and each quatrain contains a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the amount of stanzas a Kyrielle may have, but three is considered the accepted minimum. This competition has the minimum and maximum of three quatrains.
Some popular rhyming schemes for a Kyrielle are: aabB, ccbB, ddbB, with B being the repeated line, or abaB, cbcB, dbdB.
Mixing up the rhyme scheme is possible for an unusual pattern of: axaZ, bxbZ, cxcZ, dxdZ, etc. with Z being the repeated line.
The rhyme pattern is completely up to the poet.
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