Etheree

The etheree is a little-known poetry format, consisting of ten lines with graduated syllables. It was created over twenty years ago by an Arkansas poet named Etheree Taylor Armstrong.

The first line is a monosyllabic word; the second line has two syllables, and so on, until the tenth line with, ultimately, ten syllables. The form and outline of your poem should look like the following diagram where X=a syllable:

X

XX

XXX

XXXX

XXXXX

XXXXXX

XXXXXXX

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Example Poem

Wouldn't Chu?

Duck

Pigeon

Meadow lark

Ring-neck pheasant

swallow, sparrow, hawk

Even owls in  the night.

All may at some time take flight.

Some still have to walk, the penguin,

ostrich,  and emu to name a few.

If they'd voted they'd all fly.  So would  I.

© Lawrencealot -May 7, 2012