The Rights of Adventure

The Rights of Adventure is a light poetic form concerning immortality, originating in The Passionate Scourge. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of alliteration is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning. Each line has six syllables. The second line of the tercet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The first line is intended to express pleasure with the subject of the poem. It has an initial caesura. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. It has a medial caesura. The third line is intended to move away from previous ideas. It must make use of ambiguity. It has an initial caesura. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABA.

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