Ottava Rima
This is virtualy a Sicilian sestet with a couplet, but it is an even more popular form
than the Sicilian Octave for long poetry not just sonnets. there is no set meter, but using iambic pentameter
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Fall in York Beach
The cold, sombre, purple skies of fall
Are memories precious to all now.
The screaming of children playing ball
Replaced by gulls foraging for chow,
In white capped surf that covers all
And crashing waves that dig and plough.
No crusted bread torn and fed by hand
Or peanut-butter mixed with sand.
Ryter Roethicle
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