Prompted by Poet's Place Cafe

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The Lakelet   is an invented form Daniel Lake at All Poetry.com and named by Lawrence Eberhardt is an exercise in metrics and rhyme.
The elements of the Lakelet are:
         1. stanzaic, written in 3 or more sixains.
         2. metric, L1 thru L5 iambic tetrameter, L6 iambic trimeter
         3. rhyme, scheme xabbba xcdddc xefffe etc. x being unrhymed. or abcccb adeeed afgggf etc. The original description of the rhyme is abcccb with no further direction. "a" implies a rhyme but there is no match and in the original poem L1 or each stanza is unrhymed. I think linking the stanzas with the "a" rhyme or even a rentrement, repeating L1 of S1 as L1 of subsequent stanzas could be an enhancement.

Inspired by "Form of the week: Lakelet"  
Second Place March 2020 Round 54

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Poetic Traditions Poetry Contest   (E) A Contest for Metrical Rhyming Poetry. #2055137 by Brenpoet