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Doublet
Brian
Strand, UK
The DOUBLET is
an American creation whereby Adelaide Crapsey formulated the
long established epigram into a poetry form in the English
language that rivals the haiku in the sense that it
develops from within the English literary culture. The
form is a rhymed two line stanza with ten
syllables, with an integral
title which I've labeled a DOUBLET to distinguish from normal epigrams.
The doublet is a grammatical
poem having two equal lines of ten syllables that rhyme
and the best example is Adelaide's 'On Seeing Weather-Beaten
Trees'. William Soutar, the renowned Scottish poet, also wrote
in the epigrammatic 'doublet ' form in addition to the
American cinquain form (see my booklet on short poetic form
'SHORT HAND OF THE HEART' and forthcoming 'FLOWERS OF
LIFE' devoted to William
Soutar's
cinquains.
....here are two examples of my doublet form.
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