The Prophecy of Tomes
The Prophecy of Tomes is a reflective poetic form originally devised by the wicked man bride Pari Moonwood. 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: two septets, a couplet and a line. Use of internal rhyme and consonance is characteristic of the form. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura.
- The first part concerns the past. The sixth line of each septet must expand the idea of the fourth line. It has lines with three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic trimeter). The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is AABCBCB. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.
- The second part concerns current events. The second line of the couplet must expand the idea of the first line. It has lines with eight feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic octameter). The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is AA.
- The third part concerns the future. It has two feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic dimeter).
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