Unrequited

photo from: cafemom.com

You sit there O so silently,
a regal kitty on your throne,
right by your side I want to be,
together we won’t be alone.
But in your eyes I am unknown,
your glassy stare shows you won’t care;
I’m just a dog without a bone
who’ll give you love which you don’t share.

Form: Huitain
The Huitain is a simple form; Spanish in origin. The poem
revolves around the number eight, and is eight lines of verse,
with eight syllables per line. Of course, to make it more
difficult, there is a rhyme scheme to follow, but there are no
iambic requirements, so that's all right!

So, after all that, there are eight lines with eight syllables
per line and a rhyme scheme of:

a/b/a/b/b/c/b/c

And keeping in tradition, there is only ONE verse! One verse,
eight lines, eight syllables per line.

From: http://thestarlitecafe.com/perl-bin/base/NextPoet.pl?name=Sorciere&h=3

Huitain

This is a very old French verse form and as the name suggests
consists of one eight (huit)-line stanza with 8 syllables in each line.
This is the pure form (Huit et huit) but later 10 syllable poetry
emerged and this appears to have been far more popular with
the English speaking Iambic pentameter poets until the outbreak
of the Napoleonic wars.

The form was written based on three rhymes,
one of which appeared four times and the two typical rhyme schemes are:

a. b. a. b. b. c. b. c. and a. b. b. a. a. c. a. c., with the former being the most popular.

From: http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/2006Challenge/for.html



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