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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Salamanders' Fireburst

This is a sonnet form invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines.
It is stanzaic, consisting of three quatrains and a non-rhyming couplet.
Iy id metric, written in either iambic tetrameter or iambic tetrameter.
Rhyme pattern is abcb acdc aded ae, where the c and d rhymes must be feminine.

 Example poem


Tramp Stamp 777LLY     (Salamander's Fireburst)










I don't know why my daddy named his car.
He named it Lilly, and my mom don't care.
He says she's has a soft top that he fancies
and that she's got a tramp-stamp right back there,
and she's his ride and carries his guitar.
To name her after mom would be too chancy;
she's square,  demure and won't attract a copper
and her tramp-stamp just doesn't go with Nancy.
"She let's the dog ride with us to the bar,
she'll haul things when your mommy plays the shopper
but she dissuades my mom-in-law with charm."
Of all the things she does, well that's the topper.
She's sassy, gutsy, willing to go far,
his Lilly's cute yet causes no alarm.

© Lawrencealot - February 25, 2014


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