Written for:  Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet – “Huitan”

“The huitain is an off-shoot of the ballade. It is a French form in its nature and in fact, it is an 8-line poem in its totality, composed of one ballade stanza.

Here are the Huitain particulars:

It is composed in an 8-line stanza.

It has an ababbcbc rhyme scheme.

There are usually 8 to 10 syllables per line.

Any subject.”

Imagine yourself new color each day.
You’ve rested well, today you are peach.
If the night tossed you about, you are gray.
Enjoyed a long day at the beach?
you are bronze, lazy, under the sheet.
If a blue moon turns you indigo,
but next night a fiery sunset streaks
‘cross the sky, you could turn a nice Merlot.

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