POPE the QUATRAIN FORM

A 'pope' is a quatrain form of 3 lines of 8 syllables and 1 line of 4 (offset)punchline ,with a rhyming scheme of a,b,a.b and is labelled such after the English poet,Alexander Pope(1688-1744) His poem Solitude in which he imitates Abraham Crawley and for which he was indebted to Horace is the inspiration for this form. My version can be a single quatrain or double or a sequence of stanzas as in Pope's example. Sad is the heart so full of care Of tomorrow's what will,will be, Upon his sleeve,all life does wear, For all to see & Here is as a clerihew tribute Young Alexander Pope became a poet of some note In his garden he made a grotto where ' a mind to light up' was his motto