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Shadorma form poem about pearly everlasting (a butterfly attracting flower) |
| A pearl white flower in the field. Button-like shape of the pearly everlasting buds draws in butterfly. Written For: "Invalid Item" Poetic Form: - Shadorma by C R Ward The Shadorma is a Spanish poetic form made up of a stanza of six lines (sestet) with no set rhyme scheme. It is a syllabic poem with a meter of 3/5/3/3/7/5. It can have many stanzas, as long as each follows the meter. Little is known about this poetic style's origins and history but it is used by many modern poets today. This variation of the haiku, which is evident by its syllable pattern, can been seen in use in many writing venues. Schematically: xxx xxxxx xxx xxx xxxxxxx xxxxx |