26/3/2021
Today's poetic form is the "Mistress Bradstreet Stanza" created by John Berryman. It's an 8-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of abcbddba, and a beat count of 5-5-3-4-5-5-3-6. Here's more information about it:
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/mistress-bradstreet-stanza-poetic-forms
the debilitating fear I'm freed from
flew away swiftly like a caged dove
the harbinger of peace
on clear skies, it will proudly rove
with an olive branch between its beak
spreading the tale of my joyous shriek
like a banshee in a cove
she keens of death, I scream of kingdom come.
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