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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

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