The Femoral Peach-Faced-Lovebird

The Femoral Peach-faced-lovebird is a light poetic form concerning the hunt, originating in The Episodic Miscreant. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. The second line of the tercet reverses the word order of the first line. The first line is intended to describe the subject of the poem. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic pentameter). It has an initial caesura. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. It has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic tetrameter). It has a terminal caesura. The third line is intended to renounce. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic pentameter). It has a terminal caesura.

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