Put Pen To Paper Potlatch Poetry Club
poetic prompt for the week of 18 september 2023
we will be studying the OCTAMETER
the following is the nuts-and-bolts of the form
and example(s). . .
Let's Put Pen To Paper and write an octameter this week!
Octameter, created by Shelley A. Cephas, is a poem made up of 16 lines divided into two stanzas of 8 lines each.
Each line has a syllable count of 5.
The set rhyme scheme is:
stanza 1: a/b/c/d/e/d/f/d
stanza 2: g/h/c/g/i/g/d/d.

A template:

a5
b5
c5
d5
e5
d5
f5
d5

g5
h5
c5
g5
i5
g5
d5
d5

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