EPJohnson Quintet

This is a form I simply documented, attributing it to

Emily Pauline Johnson, because in the four hundred twenty plus

forms I have documented, I've never come across a quintet with

This rhyme pattern.  I used the first stanza of her poem "The Lost Lagoon" as the template for the metric schema.

The form is stanzaic, consisting of two or more quintets.

It is of Canadian origin.

The rhyme scheme is A1bbbA2 A1cccA2...etc.

 (Indicating that the ending words of L1 and L5 are repeated in each stanza.)

It is syllabic, 8/9/9/9/8

The short lines are anapest, anapest, iamb

da da DUM da da DUM da DUM

With the  middle three lines being iamb,iamb,anapest,iamb

da DUM da DUM da da DUM da DUM

My example poem:

Surviving    

When a brother is left behind

it's seldom thought that his time was due.

No battle raged, and the sky was blue,

the day that Tim told us he was through.

"I've no more strength that I can find."

We would not leave our friend behind.

he talked about his sweet wife, his mom,

his father's farm, his young brother Tom

his faith in God, which so helped becalm

him all things good that he could find.

When we found those we'd left behind

to greet with loving so very warm

and praises we had escaped from harm--

we traveled next to Tim's father's farm

for in our hearts still Tim we find.

© Lawrencealot - February 19, 2014

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