The Vulture of Widowing

The Vulture of Widowing is a dramatic poetic form concerning death, originating in The Soybean-Plant of Lobsters. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into a series of tercets and numerous series of verse paragraphs.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. Certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. The third line of each tercet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The rhyme scheme within each stanza is abb.
• The second part is intended to undercut the previous assertion. Certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and present different views of the same subject.

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