Chazz Effect Poetry Form

This week’s form is another one invented by Chazz Combs. You might remember him from a form I did at the beginning of November, The Bev-A-Lyn Rhyme.

At first glance I thought, “Oh, this looks like a fun form.” But then I noticed that it has a rhyme scheme as well. *sigh*

There are only nine lines to this poem, but to write it you might want to work backwards because the last line, consisting of a one syllable word, has to be included somewhere in each of the other lines. The syllable count is: 14,10,9,7,5,3,2,2,1 and the rhyme scheme is: a,a,b,b,c,c,d,d,e

Here’s the schematic with the syllable count and rhyme scheme:

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And, like the Bev-A-Lyn Ryme, this poem should be centered on the page. My best advice if you want to try this form? Chose your end word wisely – believe me, this poem is harder than it looks. :-D


The Wise Men

One star high in the sky, led the wisemen on their long quest
no one to tell them that this was their test
of their belief in the one true god
one by one they went abroad
to find one manger
one stranger
one queue
one to
one