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Meditative Ballad
There are five stanzas structured as follows:
x
y - is the first stanza of four syllables per line both rhyme
and both are a kind of refrain
a
R1
R2
a - this stanza has an ABBA rhyme scheme, but the two middle lines are refrains to be repeated, each line is eight syllables long
R1
a
a
R2 - the rhyme scheme in the previous stanza is repeated in the opposite order, the refrains consistently repeat BAAB
x
R1
a
R2
y - the x & y lines repeat, like the refrains word for word, the middle line is still eight syllables long and repeats the rhyme from the above stanzas.
y repeats from the first stanza but in the opposite order
x - repeats from the first stanza but in the opposite order.