There was once a Swiss clock-maker named Brachs
Who specialized in making cuckoo clocks
But with age he'd lost his touch
He went cuckoo inasmuch
Striving to keep ticks in sync with the tocks
Looking for the formal definition, structure, and history of this poetry form? Visit the Poetry Dictionary entry below. Then return to explore how PoetrySoup members bring the form to life through their own poems.