The Experimental Citron

The Experimental Citron is a poetic riddle, originating in The Unheeded Courageous Plump-Helmet-Fungi. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into a sexain and two quintains. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic pentameter).

• The first part is intended to describe the past. Certain lines often share an underlying meaning and present different views of the same subject. The rhyme scheme within this stanza is abacbc.
• The second part is intended to offer a different perspective concerning current events. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. The fourth line of each quintain shares the underlying meaning of the third line. The rhyme scheme repeating in each stanza is abbab.

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