The Learned Glosses

The Learned Glosses is a reflective poetic form, originating in The Confederacies of Habit. 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, six tercets and seven quatrains. Use of vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. It has three feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven.
• The second part is intended to make a counter-assertion. It has lines with three feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven. The rhyme scheme within each stanza is abb.
• The third part is intended to synthesize previous ideas. It has lines with three feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even. The rhyme scheme within each stanza is aaba.

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