Licentia Rhyme Form

This is an invented form created by Laura Lamarca. 

This is an isosyllabic poem (lines all have same number of syllables - 11)

It is stanzaic, consisting of 5 or more 12 line stanzas

It is rhymed.  The Rhyme pattern is  AABBCCDDEEAA, BBffgghhiiAA, CCjjkkllmmAA etc.

It is a Refrain Poem with the nth couplet of the first stanza being the 1st couplet of the nth stanza and the first couplet is also the final couplet of every stanza.

The is no mandated meter.

Example Poem

Environmentally Friendly     (Licentia Rhyme Form)

"He sprinkled smiles to folks he met every day."

Let those words, when he's gone, be what people say.

A tree provides some refuge from heavy rain

his mirth provided escape from dull disdain.

A shopping trip or a walk was not worthwhile

if while about he'd not make some person smile.

His own good cheer was augmented without fail

if laughs arose from his own invented tale.

The thoughtless actions to which we all are prone

he overlooked, lest perhaps they were his own.

"He sprinkled smiles to folks he met every day."

Let those words, when he's gone, be what people say.

A tree provides some refuge from heavy rain;

his mirth provided escape from dull disdain.

A brief respite from the downpour bolsters one

with will to press on with what they have begun.

Though laughing won't remove underlying woes,

it unpollutes the place where folk's upset grows.

A friendly howdy do when it it's not required

may spread along the day leaving some inspired.

He gives away his smile but before he's gone,

you'  notice that there's another pasted on.

"He sprinkled smiles to folks he met every day."

Let those words, when he's gone, be what people say,

A shopping trip or a walk was not worthwhile

if while about he'd not make some person smile.

A child too shy to talk will still tell his folks

that he had fun with that old guy telling jokes.

He's pause for drivers anxious to push ahead

and choose a more distant place to parking stead.

He'd open doors for the ladies- (what a thought),

He behaved the way the kids of old were taught.

He figured gloominess was but state of mind

and helped all he met just leave that state behind.

"He sprinkled smiles to folks he met every day."

Let those words, when he's gone, be what people say,

© Lawrencealot - December 3, 2013

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