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morning septone

Morning Septone

Drinking coffee
At daybreak
Watching the news unfold

Hot
Delicious
A Cup of black coffee kickstarting the day
Coffee


The Septone is a fun exercise in counting syllables. It is seven lines with an arbitrary set of line structures, commonly established by telephone numbers without the area code, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

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Septone Poem
A Septone poem consists of 7 lines of simple, just-for-fun, unrhymed verse. Authors commonly use their 7-digit home or cellular phone number (no area codes required) as the digits in the phone number help to establish the number of syllables the author will use per line (assume that zero requires ten syllables).
There are no set topics with Septones and students are encouraged to create a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Because of the limited lines and syllables, the author has to get right to the action and may have to cut out certain words (a the, as, etc.) In order t