A Wink



Tell me truth today, I won't flinch.

I've noticed your smile with a wink;
Yes, your gesture made me to think;
Should I not take it as infringe?

I don't know, if I'm little slow.
Is it an emotional binge?
Can't stop to think, yet can't find link;

Tell me truth today, I won't flinch.
~X~X~X~

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Poetic Form :: Octain Refrain
It was invented by poet Luke Prater of Britain in 2010.

It comprises eight lines as two tercets and a couplet, 
either as octosyllables (counting eight syllables per line), 
or as iambic tetrameter, whichever is preferable.
Trochaic tetrameter also acceptable.
The latter yields a more propulsive rhythm, as opposed to iambs, which lilt.

As the name suggests, the first line is a refrain, repeated as the last
(some variation of refrain acceptable).
Rhyme-scheme as follows -

A-b-b
a-c/c-a
b-A

A = refrain line. 
c/c refers to line five having midline (internal) rhyme (e.g. here/sneer),
which is different to the a- and b-rhymes.
The midline rhyme does not have to fall exactly in the middle of the line,
in fact it can be more effective and subtle, depending on context, 
to have it fall earlier or later.

Alternative layout/stanza-structure:

Refrain lines out on their own, with the middle six as two tercets -

A
b-b-a
c/c-a-b
A

Reference:: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/octainrefrain.html
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