Created by: Lyra LuVaile
Structure: Quatorzain
Meter: 6 couplets of alternating pentameter and dimeter lines and ending with a heroic couplet
Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
Example
Poor Health Costs by Larry Eberhart
Most every life is filled with highs and lows;
expect no less.
But only when your health has been deposed
is life a mess.
The costs, unless you’re in the upper class
will change your life
by draining wealth you’ve managed to amass;
it grieves your wife.
The little things like taking her to dine
you must forego.
I’d never thought this outcome would be mine;
But now it’s so.
And yet each day the love my wife provides
is constant, and she makes me laugh besides
A Garret Poet 