The Sapphire Sturgeons Red-Sand

The Sapphire Sturgeons-Red-sand is a dramatic poetic form concerning nature, originating in The Moldy Bitter-Melon-Leaf. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a tercet, another tercet and another tercet. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. It has lines with five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic pentameter). The rhyme scheme within this stanza is aab.
• The second part is intended to make a counter-assertion. It has lines with five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short (quantitative trochaic pentameter). The rhyme scheme within this stanza is aba.
• The third part is intended to synthesize previous ideas. It has lines with five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic pentameter). The rhyme scheme within this stanza is aab.

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