The Cyclopean Brains

The Cyclopean Brains is a poetic narrative, originating in The Union of Moments. 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 quintains and a series of octets. Use of simile is characteristic of the form.

• The first part is intended to describe the past. It has lines with five feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-even. The rhyme scheme repeating in each stanza is aabbb. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.
• The second part is intended to offer a different perspective concerning the future. It has lines with five feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-even. The rhyme scheme within each stanza is aaabbccc.

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