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attack the Deep State Monchielle

Attack the Deep State Monchielle

Attack the deep state
Slashing the government
Vowing to destroy it
Fighting misgovernment
Workers taking a hit

Attack the deep state
DOGE antigovernment
Many forced to quit
The supergovernment
Or are made to submit


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The Monchielle is a five-line stanza form invented by Jim T Henriksen of Norway. The structure consists of five lines with six syllables per line. The first line is repeated in each stanza, and line 3 rhymes with line 5, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/2667-monchielle-stanza/

The Monchielle Stanza is a relatively new and very popular stanzaic form invented by Jim T Henriksen of Norway. He posted his innovation at All Poetry.com in 2005 and the form seems to have found its way onto several poetry sites since. Of course, we can't leave it out of this forum.

The form is named for Jim's wife Monica and the Kyrielle which also uses a refrain within its frame. It seems to me that the form is more conducive to lyrical images and the repetition of L1 in L1 of subsequent stanzas is closer to the rentrament of the Rondeau Family of forms than the refrain and narrative nature of the Kyrielle, but I didn't invent nor name this new form.

The elements of the Monchielle Stanza are:
1. stanzaic, written in any number of cinquains. (The original poem suggests 4 cinquains but the stanza frame will work equally as well with 2 or more stanzas.)
2. syllabic, 6 syllable lines or if you prefer iambic trimeter
3. rhymed, rhyme scheme From Axbxb Axcxc Axdxd Axexe etc. x being unrhymed or Abcbc Adede Afgfg etc.
4. written with a rentrament L1 is repeated as L1 in each subsequent stanza.