Invented Poetry Forms – The Monolet

My dear readers, please forgive me for being AWOL from this blog for over a year and not having posted since March of last year. In an attempt to make it up to you, I am going to share with you today The Monolet, a poetic form that I recently invented inspired by both the Triolet and Biolet.

Similar to the triolet, the monolet is a short poem of eight lines, but it differs since it utilizes a monorhyme (all the lines rhyme with each other). The first line is repeated as both the fourth and eighth & final line, while the second line serves as a refrain in the seventh (so like a biolet, the first two lines are repeated as the final two lines, but in reverse order). In other words, the rhyme scheme of the monolet can be expressed as A1/A2/a/A1/a/a/A2/A1 (with A1 and A2 depicting the repeated lines).

As I have done with all my previous posts on poetry forms, here is a monolet I’ve written to help serve both as an example and an inspiration for yours:

Too Much Praise…

Too much praise can either be a stick or a carrot
When it’s given indiscriminately without merit.
With the risk of sounding like a repetitious parrot,
Too much praise can either be a stick or a carrot.
Do not be greedy like a needy, ravenous ferret.
Don’t hog all the attention! Learn to share it!
When it’s given indiscriminately without merit,
Too much praise can either be a stick or a carrot.

So what do you think of the monolet, my dear readers? Like with all the invented poetry forms that I have the pleasure of introducing to you on this blog, I sincerely wish you will try writing one for yourself, and if you do, please don’t hesitate to share. I hope you enjoyed this post, and thank you so much for reading!