It’s the Lucky Dip over at the MindloveMisery’s Menagerie Blog! Today our mission is to craft a Monotetra.
Monotetra
The monotetra is a new poetic form developed by Michael Walker. Each stanza contains four lines in monorhyme. Each line is in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a total of eight syllables. What makes the monotetra so powerful as a poetic form, is that the last line contains two metrical feet, repeated. It can have as few as one or two stanzas, or as many as desired.
Stanza Structure:
Line 1: 8 syllables; A1
Line 2: 8 syllables; A2
Line 3: 8 syllables; A3
Line 4: 4 syllables, repeated; A4, A4
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O, once I had a special friend
we laughed and chased the rainbow’s end
where sprites and faeries aren’t pretend,
a secret place that time transcends.
The years went by, our friendship grew
we lived in a world made for two.
never at loss for things to do
whatever we did seemed brand new.
The day our friendship turned to love
I thanked the stars and moon above
My life partner: sweet as a dove,
most of the time, kinda, sort of…
O, once I had a special friend
I’m sad to say it had to end.
Someone new waits just ’round the bend —
a secret place that time transcends.
Ergo, the Ogre 
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