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Topic: Birthday of Mitch L. Alcala (January 02)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
alcala, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Here begins a series of Burns stanzas
commemorating the Catholic Missions found in Old California along "El Camino Real", The King's Highway. The rhyme scheme is
aaabab and the meter is trochee.
Lines "a" are tetrameter lines and lines "b" are dimeter lines.
California's oldest mission.
Shrine provides appreciation,
viewing proselytization.
Converts, business,
making tribes of Christian passion.
Seeds brought, priests bless.
Categories:
alcala, religious,
Form: Rhyme