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KarlTenBrew:
Here I am seeking a name
for a form of poetry
which has been unknownst, for lame
to be seven squared.
Seven lines of just seven
syllables, so iambic?
Perhaps.  Rhyming? Still unkown.

Blaze:
The closest I can think of off hand is the Septolet is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen words with a break in between the two parts.  Both parts deal with the same thought and create a picture.  Oh and the Rhyme Royal A consisting of stanzas having seven lines in iambic pentameter.
   

KarlTenBrew:
Iambic pentameter
does not quite work for this here
idea.  For seven lines
of fourteen syllables does
not seven by seven make.
So if only fourty-nine,
free flowing or strict line time?



Really, I think of the form like a sonnet: the syllabic structure is always the same, but the rhyming requirements change [see the difference between a Shakesperean and Italian sonnet].  Potential schemes:
a-b-c-d-e-f-g
a-b-c-d-c-b-a
a-a-b-b-b-c-c [c could also be a]
a-a-a-b-c-c-c [where c is neither a nor b]
a-b-a-b-a-b-a
a-b-b-a-b-b-a
etc.  So many possibilties!  That also leads to the question: you could define it by flow instead of rhyme.  Or simply be like haiku: a picture-thought that simply has the number of lines with their number of syllables.  I'd name them 'septic', but that's been taken and has a rather negative connotation ;)  I think I'll refer to them as septisyllabic septets for strict accuracy of defining the form for now.

Yeratel:

--- Quote from: Chuck Chuck Razool on January 21, 2010, 01:37:57 AM ---"There once was a man from Madras"

--- End quote ---

The word "Madras" has so many possibilities in limericks.

There is a young girl in Madras,
Who has a magnificent ass.
Not rounded and pink,
As you probably think,
But gray, with long ears, and eats grass.

Blaze:
lol

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