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Rated: E · Poetry · Environment · #773232
This is an "Anapestic Trimeter" format.
The prompt is to write a four liner with an a/b/a/b rhyme pattern on any Season, the pattern of poem being an "Anapestic trimeter".

Rhythm of Rain

The dark CLOUDS do bad THINGS
To my DE-sire to SWING and do STUFF
It plain - LY irks to SIT and draw RINGS
As if RAIN all the WEEK is not E-nough.

© Dr. Taher Kagalwala, Nov. 2003


Note: In an anapestic trimeter, every third syllable is supposed to be emphasized.

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