Poetic Exploration

Winter - A Tyburn Poem

Longest
Darkest
Hardest
Coldest
Winter falls with longest, darkest night
Freezing life in hardest, coldest blight.



Tyburn ▼

A Tyburn is a six line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 syllables. The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third, and fourth lines as the 5th through 8th syllables.
From: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/tyburn.html

Please post your completed Tyburn poem in {bitem: xxxxxxx} or {entry: xxxxxx} format to the thread titled: Lesson 15/Session 2 - Tyburn that I set up on the discussion page found here . Here is the example I wrote: "The Wail ~ Tyburn" . You can find another example posted here: "Always Near - a Tyburn" . Here is the link to your latest assignment update listing "Qualified Assignments" .

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