The Lyrical Embrace

The Lyrical Embrace is a solemn poetic form intended to teach a moral lesson, originating in The Wayward Confederacy. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is divided into a couplet and a series of quatrains. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they often contrast underlying meaning. Each line has five feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven-even.

• The first part concerns the past. The second line of the couplet reverses the word order of the first line. The second line of the couplet must expand the idea of the first line. The ending of each line of this part shares the same rhyme. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.
• The second part concerns the future. The fourth line of each quatrain reverses the word order of the second line. The third line of each quatrain must expand the idea of the first line. The rhyme scheme within each stanza is aaab.

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