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Octosyllabic Poems - Poems about Octosyllabic

Octosyllabic Poems - Examples of all types of poems about octosyllabic to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for octosyllabic.

Premium Member Foxes
...A fine family of foxes, a feisty mom and her two kits living near humans by shrewd wits. Her constant success flummoxes. Kits are tiny jack-in-the-boxes, heads bobbing while mom baby sits. ......Read the rest...
Categories: octosyllabic, animal, baby, environment, family,
Form: Other



Premium Member Dead
...I found him lying on his bed, hair tousled and with a sweet smile. I realized that he was dead. I knew this was no show of guile. A lifeless shell fueled with faith betrayed a muted mask of wrai......Read the rest...
Categories: octosyllabic, death, death of a
Form: Other
Premium Member Autumn Leaves
...Now my posh palette is laid waste. Winter, winding its way to fore, lays its whiteness at my front door. Vivid colors become murky paste and lose their hue with rash haste. My parquet is......Read the rest...
Categories: octosyllabic, autumn, color, leaving, winter,
Form: Other
Premium Member Bitter End
...Breath of life in a forlorn one, uplifted face to brace the wind, called His name with prayer to send. Forgive me! I have come undone. I lost my way, now moribund, and all I’d hoped was to ascen......Read the rest...
Categories: octosyllabic, death, emotions, hope, judgement,
Form: Other
Why So
... As young children, we were happy but as adults, most of us not. why so? Cause ideas what's thought as right, differs -none takes gladly. Adult unhappiness derives from rigidity ......Read the rest...
Categories: octosyllabic, stress,
Form: Sonnet



Heavenly Spring
...around With summer coming, time for spring to go Decima is a style of poetry that is Octosyllabic and has 10 lines. Given the flexible method of counting syllables in Spanish verse, where an "Octosyllabic" line could easily have seven or nine syllables (as normally counted), in writing a decima in English it would seem not unreasonable to write in iambic pentameter (theoretically ten syll......Read the rest...
Categories: octosyllabic, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse

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