30- Quatrain
A quatrain is a poem consisting of four line verses. Existing in a variety of forms, the quatrain appears in the poetic traditions of many ancient civilizations.
There are fifteen possible rhyming schemes, the most traditional and common are: aaaa, abab and abba. The following poem has the chain rhyming scheme, aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd.
That Day
Do you mark that day? Does that day mark you?
“What day?”, you ask, The day when God made true
His promise given long ago to Eve
That one would come, who would the curse undo.
That day when, willingly was God bereaved,
When not even closest friends could believe,
Seeing his lifeless face, hung down and void,
That ever the death curse would now unweave.
Do you mark that day, or all thought avoid
So not to see the awe full act employed
To bring bright pardon to the living dead?
By his death only, could death be destroyed.
Are you marked through and through in heart and head,
So that for you He is your daily bread?
Does each new day make brighter all He said?
O mark that day when his life blood was shed!
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31- Quinzaine
The English word quinzaine come from the french word quinze, meaning fifteen. A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. Seven syllables in the first line, five in the second line and three in the third line (7/5/3). The first line makes a statement. The next two lines ask a question relating to that statement.
Starting Life
Baby crying, starting life.
Who will guide it through?
Who will care?
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