No Expectations

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2009 Poetry



Mirrored lines holding expectation

as I sit and grasp at straws.

Crunching words is not so easy,

forming rhyme is very hard.



Not to form an aberration,

as I weave my creative thought.

Forming rhyme is very hard,

crunching words is not so easy.



Now I sit in my frustration,

not expecting any applause.

Crunching words is not so easy,

forming rhyme is very hard.




Author's Notes/Comments: 


Mirrored Refrain


The Mirrored Refrain is rhyming verse form constructed by Stephanie Repnyek.


The poem is formed by three or more quatrains where two lines within the quatrain
are the "mirrored refrain" or alternating refrain.


The rhyme scheme is as follows: xaBA, xbAB, xaBA, xbAB, etc..


x represents the only lines that do not rhyme within the poem. A and B represent
the refrain.

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