I took this photo in my yard last year after a lot of rain.

Hemmed Ballad
This is lyenochka, Helen's, new poetic form call the "hemmed ballad". It starts with the typical ballad quatrain (8/6/8/6) with an abab rhyme then concludes the quatrain with a summarizing rhyming couplet (8/8) cc rhyme. It is a way of telling a short snippet of a story then reflecting on that bit of information with a couplet afterwards. To sew the stanzas together, the last rhyme used starts the first line's rhyme of the next stanza. Optional ending with a final couplet for a conclusion.

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