The Cogent Review

The Cogent Review is a dramatic poetic form intended to make an apology, originating in The Bamboo of Enlarging. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into a line and a septet. Use of epenthesis, metaphor and juxtaposition is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines sometimes have reversed word orders.

• The first part concerns the past. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic pentameter).
• The second part concerns the future. Certain lines use the same placement of allusions. It has lines with five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic pentameter). The rhyme scheme within this stanza is abbbaab. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.

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