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On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 9:15:14 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> General-Zod wrote:
>
> > Will Dockery wrote:
> >> Michael Pendragon wrote:
> >>> Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> >>>> > > D?cima for D?cima
> >>>> >
> >>>> > A Decima consists of 44 lines
> >>>> No, ten lines:
> >>>>
> >>>>
https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/D%C3%A9cima
> >>>>
> >>>> ***
> >>>>
> >>>> D?cima
> >>>> A d?cima refers to a ten-line stanza of poetry
>
> >>> Serves me right for not Googling it before responding.
>
> >>> I was thinking of the Ecudorian version:
>
> >>> "In Ecuador, the decima is a 44-line poem comprised of a
quatrain and four 10-line stanzas. Each of the lines from the opening
quatrain are repeated later in the poem. The lines still retain eight
syllables, though the rhyme constraints are loosened."
>
> >>>
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/decima-poetic-forms
>
> >>> As I believe I may have previously stated, I had never
heard of the decima until I joined AAPC.
>
> >> Try writing one or two, now.
>
> >
>
>
> > I am planning to write one soon...
> Any progress with that?
Not yet, been sort of busy with landscaping work this summer....
mowing lawns and trimming hedges,....
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