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Definition

This is much more popular form of Quintet having no set measure or foot and has a rhyming scheme of a. b. a. b. b.

Example

Fields we have planted
have ripened slowly to golden husk.
soon they will be harvested.
the air rich with wheaten musk
the fields once more return to dust.

Ryter Roethicle

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