Honing the Craft

Week 37 - Tricube

Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Conceived in Liberty*

Abe Lincoln,
our Fourteenth
President.

A tall man
standing for
equal rights.

Gave nation
"a new birth
of freedom."*
         ~~jvg



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"Week 37 Form: Tricube"  

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* from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863
Verse Form: The Tricube  found at Writer's Digest   is an invented form by Phillip Larrea is inspired by the mathematic "cube" to the third power.

The elements of the Tricube are:
         1. a hexastich made up of 3 tercets.
         2. a tercet is made up of 3 lines. (This obvious fact is spelled out in keeping with the third power concept.)
         3. syllabic, each line is only 3 syllables long