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A last minute heads-up of what a trailing rhyme looks like in practice:
Dissing someone is real BAD
and this fills me with SAD
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But it is written as two regular lines in a poem, as the unstressed syllable of the one word TRAILS behind like the tail feathers of the Bird-of-Paradise.
What to submit:
Write ONE quatrain using at least one example of a trailing rhyme in your poem, on the topic of Bird-of-Paradise—the bird or plant.
Title: Of your choice.
Example: Avarice (poetrysoup.com)
Trailing rhyme is where a single stressed syllable word perfectly rhymes with the penultimate syllable (which is stressed) of multi-syllable (two or more syllables) words in the following lines, eg pine/finesse, and the unstressed syllables are ‘trailing’. The trailing syllables may include suffixes, eg trail (the chief rhyme word) & failure/railing/bailiff. When more than one line use trailing rhyme, these words are NOT DOUBLE RHYME (feminine rhyme) as the unstressed syllables of those words do not rhyme, eg per the preceding example: –ure/-ing/-iff
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Feedback
Feedback will be given on the top three winners directly on the poems. NO correspondence will be entered into regarding the contest results posted.
Prizes
First Prize: Glory
2nd - 10th places mentions (if applicable)
Preparing Your Entry
Submit one copy of your poem online. Format your poem. Please make your entry easy to read — no illustrations or fancy fonts.
English Language
Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.
A Note to Poetry Contestants
You are welcome to enter this contest, whether or not you won a prize in one of my previous contests.