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a dizain
tag by Marcus
French poetic forms:-
The dizain was a favorite of the fifteenth and sixteenth-century French poets, but it has also been employed in English by the likes of Philip Sidney and John Keats. Here are the basic rules:
One ten-line stanza
Ten syllables per line
Employs the following rhyme scheme: a b a b b c c d c d
I’ve been through this before with taggers — I do not know anything about formal poetry or dizains (Is that even the right spelling?)— or even why there is such a thing as formal poetry or dizains or lais or even sonnets (sorry William.) Although I must confess I have noticed a difference when [Medium] poets change forms, and usually for the better. Anyway, Marcus wrote his dizain about love — so I wrote mine about hate — to show my disdain😎 (for the dizain.) I don’t really hate the dizain, I don’t even distain the dizain, there’s not enough time to get that worked up about it …but gimme time. Perhaps they are supposed to be about ‘love’ …the dizain …well, hate is part of love I guess …right ? I hope I counted the syllables correctly.
Distain for the Dizain
Somebody said a dizain you should try
Been around for five hundred years or more
They are from…
