The Droplet of Visionaries

The Droplet of Visionaries is a poetic narrative intended to make an apology, originating in The Nations of Competing. 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 line, a sexain and a septet. Use of assonance, consonance and ambiguity is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura.

• The first part concerns the past. It has four feet with a tone pattern of even-even-uneven.
• The second part concerns current events. Certain lines often share an underlying meaning and often contrast underlying meaning. The fourth line of the sexain presents a different view of the subject of the third line. It has lines with three feet with a tone pattern of even-even-uneven. The rhyme scheme within this stanza is aabb1b, where numbers indicate a refrain.
• The third part concerns the future. Certain lines often share an underlying meaning and present different views of the same subject. The sixth line of the septet contrasts the underlying meaning of the second line. It has lines with four feet with a tone pattern of even-even-uneven. The rhyme scheme within this stanza is abaaac1.

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