Become a
Premium Member
and post notes and photos about your poem like Emile Pinet.
Half-Eleven
Invented by Nina Parmenter, the form consists of four rhyming couplets and one final rhyming tercet (three-liner). There are two options for the final tercet.
Syllable counts and rhyme scheme are as follows:
...11 (A) 5* (a)...11 (B) 5* (b)...11 (C) 5* (c)...11 (D)...5* (d)
And then a closing tercet of EITHER:
11 (A) (Exact repeat of line 1)
5* (a)
5* (a)
OR:
5* (a)
5* (a)
11 (A) (Exact repeat of line 1)
