The Silken Lenses

The Silken Lenses is a poetic narrative concerning current events, originating in The New Pick. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into a line and four tercets. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing.

• The first part is intended to make a concession. It has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic tetrameter).
• The second part is intended to make an assertion. It has lines with four feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic tetrameter).

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