City Ekers

A Terza Rima - three line iambic pentameter with a-b-a rhyme scheme and a final couplet of a-a, fourteen lines total.


City Ekers

The city decked in all its fine array
A spectacle in which to find delight
An interest for each hour of the day

And still abuzz with people all the night
Who sing and dance and play, who shop and eat
At midnight in the square, it's such a sight

The ebb and flow, the rhythm and the beat
This constant flux of people in the fray
Who move and laugh and dwell upon the street

Where sinners, conners, liars lurk and prey
On innocents and ignorants the same
To steal their pride as surely as their pay

And take it all in stride, this ugly game
They play to eke a life out of their shame.


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