Learn the basics of this form of poetry. This article also contains example poems written using the Monotetra form.

The Monotetra is a simple, but powerful, form with an easy to follow structure.

The Monotetra was developed by Michael Walker, a public accountant from West Tennessee whose love of poetry and poetic forms led him to create his own. The Monotetra is now a recognized and world famous form of poetry. It just goes to show that anyone with a love of creative writing, or anything else for that matter, can do and create anything if they have the passion and desire to do so.

The Monotetra is a form that consist of four lines, each line ending mono-rhyme. Each line has a syllable count of eight or four metric feet. To give the form a more profound and distinct effect the last line is written in two metric feet or four syllables then repeated.

This form can be written with one or as many stanzas as you would like.

Example 1
Walk away with me, hand in hand
and leave our footprints in the sand.
Watch the sun fall beneath the land
its just so grand, its just so grand.

Example 2
Autumn rain falls against the glass,
flooding the drains, drowning the grass.
I wonder when it will surpass,
Oh will it pass? Oh will it pass?

Its night time now, I see no moon,
clouds swollen like a huge balloon
sprinkle rain in an off beat tune,
Oh please end soon, oh please end soon

Morning comes and still pitter pat
hitting the roof hard as a bat.
Overflowing drains, way too fat
break just like that, break just like that

An hour later golden rays
shine through cracks and brightens my day.
The sun is coming out to play.
Its gone away! Its gone away!