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Stacked Poem

First Form: Lanturne

The Lanturne is a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one.

It is a short shape poem from Japan describing a specific one syllable noun, such as a feeling, a thing, or an abstract idea.

The purpose of the lantern poem is to illuminate the subject and re-imagine or personalize it for the reader, not just to simply define it.

Second Form: Tetractys

Tetractys should express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, using 20 syllables. 5 lines with a syllable count of...

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 10

The "1 syllable" line must be a proper, interesting word.... nothing like "a" or "the"
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Should be centered but can't do that here at this time.