The Broody Calf

The Broody Calf is a poetic narrative concerning pregnancy, originating in The Mother of Exfoliating. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a line, a quatrain and a septet. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has eight syllables.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion.
• The second part is intended to make a counter-assertion. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. The ending of each line of this part shares the same rhyme. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.
• The third part is intended to synthesize previous ideas. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. The rhyme scheme within this stanza is abaccaa.

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