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Coffee Wrapped Refrain

Coffee Wrapped Refrain

Drinking coffee watching the news
The talking heads gives me the blues
I soon turn off the idiot box
I need a digital detox
In the afternoon I drink koffee
In the morning, drinking coffee.

Drinking red wine during sunset
Until at last I start to forget
All these gloomy thoughts in my head
Soon it is time to go to bed.
Drinking my wine with the woman who is still mine
Everything turns out just fine drinking my red wine.


The Wrapped Refrain is an invented form devised by Jan Turner, for which there are two options:


1. Two or more stanzas of six lines each with syllable counts of 8,8,8,8,12,12 and rhyme scheme a,a,b,b,c,c. The "refrain" comes in by repeating the first four syllables as the last four syllables of each stanza, as described and demonstrated in the following link: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/wrappedrefrain.html



Wrapped Refrain

The Wrapped Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of 2 or more stanzas of 6 lines each; Meter: 8,8,8,8,12,12 and Rhyme Scheme: a,a,b,b,c,c.

Refrain rule: In each stanza the first 4 syllables (or 4 single-syllable words) in the first line must be the last 4 syllables (or 4 single-syllable words) at the end of the last line. This is what wraps each stanza with a repeated refrain ...thus, the Wrapped Refrain.

Optional: The first stanza refrain and last stanza refrain can be joined (or loosely joined) together for the title of the poem.

Example #1:
Let’s Steal Away to Meet Again

Let’s steal away to some place cool,
with rivulets that foam and pool
beneath a wooded, shady shore
that frames the rocks with sycamore.
The afternoon has just begun; without delay,
let’s meet beneath the shaded sun...let’s steal away.

Let’s meet again where once we knew
the buttercups with golden dew;
we scurried to our hidden spot
where I recall forget-me-not.
And, we shall have the promised dreams that we did then,
as we revisit hideaways...let’s meet again.

Copyright © 2007 Jan Turner

Example #2:
Create For Me a Metaphor

Create for me a lovely poem,
and let it be a brook, to roam
throughout a field of daffodils,
then wander up and down small hills.
And make it move as if it were a melody….
Delight me with this poem that you create for me.

A metaphor or two will do,
and paint with colors that imbue
this lovely poem with fantasy.
I love when you enrapture me!
Create for me a world I’m eager to explore;
A taste of candy, scent of rose; a metaphor!

Copyright © 2009 Andrea Dietrich


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2. An extended version has eight lines with syllable counts of 14, 14, 8, 8, 8, 8, 14, 14 and rhyme scheme a,a,b,b,c,c,d,d. In this case, the first ten syllables must form a phrase and be repeated as the last ten syllables at the end of each stanza, as described and demonstrated in the following link: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/wrappedrefrain2.html