Ato Z Challenge – Letter’s L – L’Eco Form – April 15, 2016

The letter L



Down lilac lanes,
Aligning sweetly the limpid lake
Leading to her Liege
Lady Laura  walked innocent, so leisurely,
Laughing at the jester’s light lechery
Down lilac lanes.

Whispering disloyal lobcock,
Whose poisonous lips did insinuate
Lies unto Laura’s Lord:
“Look, Lady Laura loves her jester,
Liege Lord, see her languid laughter!”
(Whispering disloyal lobcock.)

Luciferin green-eyed monster,
Lived inside the Lord’s heart
Leading him into insanity.
He hired loutish loiterers as lynchers,
To stone the two next day.
Luciferin green-eyed monster.

Down lilac lanes
Whispering disloyal lobcock
Luciferin green-eyed monster
[A tragic ending]

© G.s.k. ‘16

(Unfortunately, yesterday I didn’t write nor indeed even visit my blog … so today I’ll be doing the writing I had planned to do yesterday.)

(The form is called “L’Eco” (Italian for Echo) and is a form I invented a few months ago and then forgot about …

Here’s the structure of the form:

• A four stanza poem
• Word count 3-5-4-6-6-3 (except for the last stanza)
• The first and last lines repeat in each stanza.
• The fifth line is the same in each stanza throughout the poem
• The last stanza is a four line “conclusion” where each of the first lines of the poem  echo – the fourth line [closed in brackets]  ties the whole poem up.

Written for Gradmama 2011 – L is for Library (A-Z Challenge) who reminded me of this form.

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