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Rated: E · Poetry · Children's · #1555012
Who's that tapping on my bridge? Might it be something tasty?
Three Billy Goats Yum!

Image for Round 17 of Pond Poetry

I lie in wait beneath the bridge
and lick my lips, my eyes ablaze.
There’s nothing fearsome trolls like more
than Billy Goat with Hollandaise.

As shadows lengthen, prospects dim.
I lie in wait beneath the bridge,
dismayed that I may have to eat
some week-old toad left in my fridge.

With aching tummy left to mourn
the tasty treats that might have been,
I lie in wait beneath the bridge.
Trolls should be fat, but I’m so thin.

But wait, is that a tapping hoof?
Three goats traipse down from yonder ridge.
My dinner plans at last prepared,
I lie in wait beneath the bridge.





Based on a popular read-aloud story for children, "The Three Billy Goats GruffOpen in new Window..  The poem makes more sense if you have read the story.

Written for Round 17 of Invalid Item Open in new Window..

Form: Quatern

A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme scheme.

I chose to write this in iambic tetrameter with an a/b/c/b rhyme scheme, because I like meter and rhyme and it isn't forbidden.

line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4

line 5
line 6 (line 1)
line 7
line 8

line 9
line 10
line 11 (line 1)
line 12

line 13
line 14
line 15
line 16 (line 1)
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