David Richmond Poet Other

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This writing form is called a quadracep, quadricep, or Richmond’s quatrain. The quadracep,  quadricep or Richmond’s quatrain, has four, 4-line stanzas written in either iambic or trochaic tetrameter with the rhyme scheme aaaa, bbbb, cccc with the fourth stanza being a refrain made up of two lines from the first stanza, one from the second stanza and one from the third stanza or any combination two lines from one stanza and one from each of the other two stanzas. In the above example stanza four has the rhyme scheme aabc, but it can be abbc or abcc.

Signs of the End

Prophets, Seers of YAHWEH tell me
what the end time signs will be.
Stunning signs in heaven you’ll see
perils pervading land and sea.

Stars of heaven like leaves falling
prophets false for worship calling 
famines, plagues, the nations galling
strife, commotion, mankind bawling.

Earthquakes, wars in divers places
People, awake, turn your faces
to the one who made the races
and bestows his saving graces.

When you see the signs in heaven
stars like leaves from heaven falling.
People, awake, turn your faces
to the one who made the races.

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