Alankar(Decor) -69 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Their Race Yet Not Over(Kyrielle Poem)

A narrative, it tells a story.
stanzaic, in quatrains.
syllabic, each line is 8 syllables. in iambic tetrameter.
written with a refrain in the 4th line of the quatrain.
Occasionally it is written in rhyming couplets.
or when written in rhyming couplets the refrain is 2nd line of the couplet.
rhymed, rhyme scheme may vary. Quatrain options abaB, cbcB, dbdB,
or abbA accA or aabB ccbB or axaB cxcB
B being the refrain and x being unrhymed. Couplets aA bB cC dD etc.

Their race yet not over with that
Else way tortoise as thought to race
To run, to swim in halves, it sought
It planned so wise to win the race

Starting speeded with hare on land
Plodding slowed with tortoise to race
Yet in river tortoise swam freed
It planned so wise to win the race

Knowing not to swim the hare lost
In haste was his challenge to race
Knowing to swim tortoise swam fast
It planned so wise to win the race