The Inventive Cotton-Seed

The Inventive Cotton-seed is a solemn poetic form intended to renounce, originating in The Grand Confederations. 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 quatrain, two quintains and a couplet. Each line has nine syllables. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura.

• The first part concerns the past. The third line of the quatrain has the same grammatical structure as the second line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is AAAB.
• The second part concerns current events. Certain lines have similar grammatical structures. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is BBBBB.
• The third part concerns the future. Certain lines have similar grammatical structures. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is CC.

Events