Love was a weight we could not bear
by Carl Glover
This ‘plot’ /challenge is to write a Kyrielle of an imagined dialogue between an estranged couple. The title of the poem is also the refrain.
Each plot submission should be one stanza long.
A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza of four lines), and each quatrain contains a repeating line, as a refrain, which is usually the last line of each stanza. Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the number of stanzas a Kyrielle may have.
This challenge is for a aabB rhyme pattern. An example of this pattern is illustrated in the extract of a Kyrielle below.
John Payne (1842-1916)
Golden morning and purple night,
Life that fails with the failing light;
Death is the only deathless one.
All things must end that have begun.
Toil and pain and the evening rest;
Joy is weary and sleep is best;
Fair and softly the day is done.
All things must end that have begun.
The idea for setting a challenge was inspired by Jan Mikaszewicz.
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