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Today’s poetry form is called Rime Couee Poetry. From Brewer,

The rime couee is a French poetic form that uses six-line stanzas with a 3-part rhyme scheme and variable line lengths. Here are the guidelines:

Six-line stanzas.
Eight syllables in lines one, two, four, and five.
Six syllables in the third and sixth lines.
Rhyme scheme of AABCCB.

The poem can be a single stanza or run for several.

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Remember Knowing

who am I to write in this world
making notes of my days unfurled
shall I watch by window
these eyes open, yet unseeing
I think not, with all time fleeing
old thoughts caught in limbo

I must not tread on worn footpaths
or suffer a living dead wrath
the summer wind blowing
yes, outside I walk in regard
observing that which whole and scarred
I remember knowing

Now to you…wanna try a Rime Couee poem? Share a link in the comments below!

I am on a personal challenge to explore and write in 100+ different poetic forms.  To assist me in this journey is Robert Lee Brewer’s The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms where he gives the form and an example. Remember Knowing is #39 in this collection I’m calling, very simply, 100+ Poetic Forms.

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