SICILIAN QUATRAIN,
or HEROIC STANZA

This form consists of three rhymes using iambic pentameter. This gives a suggested pattern of:

x x x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x x x b
x x x x x x x x x c
x x x x x x x x x b



Music in Poetry

To write quatrains, you have to know IP;
Sicilian uses ABC for rhyme-
a second B concludes its first four lines;
another stanza follows, in due time.

A poem is like music, sung in key-
an orchestrated work, at times sublime.
As words are strung together in designs,
they ring like little bells- a Christmas chime.

Leny Roovers





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