Excellent contest entry (a rispetto) Writing Prompt Entries 2014 : My Home-Sweet-Home by Debra White Home writing prompt entry

My home-sweet-home is everything I'd hoped that it would be, and more, and whilst it's not fit for a king, it's perfect for me and my four. My home-sweet-home ain't all that grand, nor half as pretty as I'd planned, but home is where my family all live together happily. Writing Prompt Write a poem in any style on the theme 'home'. That's it! No other rules... just stick to the theme! Author Notes Me and my four; Me, my husband Shaun and our children Ben (8yrs), Katie (6yrs) and Rebecca (3yrs) The rispetto is a classic Italian form consisting of only 8 lines divided into two quatrains. The meter is iambic tetrameter: daDUMdaDUMdaDUMdaDUM. The distinguishing characteristic of this form is that the rhyme scheme changes from abab alternate-line rhyming in stanza one to ccdd couplet rhyming in the second.

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