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Friday, 21 November 2008

Blues Stanza

Type: structure, meter, repetition, rhyme, stanzaic

Description: a three-line stanza rhymed AAa The second line is a variant (incremental repetition) of the first-line, usually written in iambic pentameter. It is not unusual for the whole poem to be a complaint or lament. Lines are normally broken by a caesure between phrases

Schematic: xX xX xX xX xA
xX xX xX xX xA
xX xX xX xX xa

Meter: iambic pentameter

Stanza Length: 3 lines


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