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gun dizain

Gun dizain writing com

There are too many guns around, just no fun
Now there are too many people dying
The problem is simply too many guns
Just too many politicians lying
Too many people are now gun ghosts crying
As a result, there is much sadness
There is no end in sight to this madness
Politicians offering prayers
Nothing will be done to stop this badness
We will continue to have dark nightmares


The Dizain is an ancient French form of ten lines with eight or ten syllables per line and a mirrored rhyme scheme of ababbccdcd, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/690-the-ballade-family-of-forms-including...

Dizain is a decastich, the whole poem is made up of a single Ballade Supreme stanza, a 10-line stanza without an envoy. Lines of 8 or 10 syllables each with a rhyme scheme ababbccdcd.

Dizain for the evolutionary
socialist dream of edouard Bernstein
by DC Martinson

Sleep no more, you working classes,
don't fight the pulse to congregate.
Rise, you the power of the masses,
and from the grip of wealth luxate
your innate dignity.
Don't spill blood like those in power,
don't prattle like those who cower
behind the stench of flame and flag;
for those who live in the tower
will fall: we will not have to drag.


https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/dizain-poetic-form

month or two, we're going to start checking out a new form every week or two.
Dizain Poems
The dizain gets us back in the French form domain, which as regular readers know is a favorite of mine. This particular form was a favorite of 15th and 16th-century French poets, but it has also been employed in English by the likes of Philip Sidney and John Keats.
Here are the basic rules of the dizain:
One 10-line stanza
10 syllables per line
Employs the following rhyme scheme: ababbccdcd
Note: You might have noticed that the rhyme pattern in the second half of the poem sort of mirrors the pattern in the first half. While working on my domains, I found this to make the poem both fun and challenging to write (and read back to myself).
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