Gratitude breaks the spell of Writers Block |
| I have decided to use the royal we, In my conversations with myself, In dialogue between my muse and me, This puts my ego’s fears on the shelf, In the a dark corner where I cannot see, The reasons I should sabotage myself, This enhances my creativity, And helps my soul see its reality. Line count: 8 Form: Ottava Rima – eight iambic lines (normally iambic pentameter lines). Each stanza has three alternating rhyme & one double rhyme, with the following rhyme pattern a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c. Written in eight line octaves consisting of 10 or 11 syllables per line & in the following pattern: one octive poem: abababcc, two octive poem: abababcc, dededeff, three octive poem: abababcc, dededeff, ghghghii, etc. |