Learn the form poetry, Trois-par-huit. It is a beautiful form of poetry. This articles gives an example of this type of poem.

The Trois-par-Huit is a short eight line poetic form that is striking and fun to play with.
This form was created by Lorraine M. Kanter and goes by a few other names as well, the Octa tri and the Three by Eight just to name a few.

The structure of the Trois-par Huit is easy to compose as it only has three stanzas of 3,3,2 or 3,2,3, lines which can be decided on your own personal taste.
As with many forms the Trois-par-Huit has a syllable count, 3,6,9,12,12,9,6,3 and a rhyming scheme of AAB BBC CC or if you were to choose the 3,2,3, line stanza it would be AAB BB CCC.

The last line of the poem should be the title of the piece and should summarize what the poem is about.

When posting and displaying your Trois -par-Huit always center align it on the page for a neat presentation.

The Trois-par-Huit is a form that allows you to stretch your imagination with the fun of rhyming while keeping you in a bounds of creating a piece that is concise and both visually and emotionally compelling.

Give it a go today.

Example:

Desert Rose

Sand simmers
beneath sunburnt glimmers
of relentless skies smothering earth

pulverized land gives way, defeated by new birth
stretching,a leaf trembles showing its strength of worth
and to the suns angriest oppose

defiantly she grows
Desert Rose