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Form: The Yama is named for the Hindi god of death and is a stanzaic form found in Viola Berg's Pathways for a Poet.
The elements of the Yama are:
1. stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
2. syllabic, written in 6 syllable lines.
3. rhymed, rhyme scheme x a x a, x being unrhymed.
4. a poem of death, grief or sorrow. It can be expanded to include simply a poem of loss. (even of a season)
5. titled.
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