The Strawberry of Cobras

The Strawberry of Cobras is a light poetic form intended to teach a moral lesson concerning Pobaro, originating in The Wavy Giant-Grouper. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is three to five quatrains. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic pentameter). Every line of the poem has a medial caesura. The rhyme scheme of the poem is 1A1B, where numbers indicate a refrain.

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