Germanic Caudated Sonnet

This a form of the super sonnet class invented by

Jose Rizal M. Reyes on June 9, 2009 This is a triple tailed sonnet

abba bccb cddc dd / dee dff dgg

3 quatrains + couplet + 3 tercets

natural place for the volta is line 13, but poet may choose.

Example poem:

Envy then Punish the Rich      (Germanic Caudated Sonnet)

In every age some chosen few have ruled

despite the form of government in place.

Laws are the tools that often bring disgrace

Eventually when power's overruled.

Entrusted senators, to win their race

now tell the public what it wants to hear.

Views shared with some are hushed, but its clear

your wants  will yield to those more highly placed.

Rich men can fund campaigns and make appear

Innumerable chances to obtain

considerable wealth with little pain.

Handshake contracts let fairness disappear.

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Indeed we viewed the scoundrels with disdain  

no doubt, but set our course to our own gain.

Occupy Wall street  meant that one would train

until they could perform those jobs that paid

real bucks for successful decisions made.

Some joined those rich, and walked in their terrain

and moved their family's fortunes up a rung,

denouncing whining as song to be sung.

Alas our masses want the rich contained;

government must now give punishment to those

employers rising in the path they chose.

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© Lawrencealot December 1, 2012 

It happens that this poem is also an acrostic sonnet.

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