Get your own Free Home PageI wrote this with a specific style in mind. I'm not sure it's a recognized peotic style. In fact, it almost certainly isn't, as far as I know. But I occasionally like to actually do something sort of challenging.
Here:
I wrote it so that lines of 1 and 3 of each stanza would be coherent together. So would lines 2 and 4. Also, lines 1 and 2, 3 and 4.
I. E. :
Lines 25-29
1 "A friendship returned
2 so pain was dulled
3 And love flourished
4 and wounds were healed"
Version 1. (1 and 2) "A friendship returned, so pain was dulled."
Version 2. (3 and 4) "And love flourished, and wounds were healed"
Version 3. (1 and 3) "A friendship returhed, and love flourished."
Version 4. (2 and 4) "So pain was dulled and wounds were healed."
I did this with each stanza. Some turned out pretty well (like this one, I believe.)... some did not. Back to Chronicle.
Back to New Poetry.
I have attempted this style before now, perhaps you will notice it reading through some of my other poems. But this was the first time I applied it to a whole poem.
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