The Less Deceived Poems Structure

Wedding Wind structure

Two stanzas with irregular rhyme, varying line lengths, structured repetition, positive tone, mix of enjambment and end-stopped lines.

Lines on a young lady’s photograph album structure

Nine quintains with regular ABBAB rhyme scheme, rhythmic energy, sad tone, and lost memories.

Places, Loved ones structure

Three stanzas of octets with regular ABAB CDCD rhyme scheme, iambic trimeter, and defiant message.

Coming structure

19-line stanza with peaceful tone, free verse, no sustained rhyme scheme, climax of happiness and laughter.

Reasons for attendance

Four stanzas with varying rhyme schemes, including ABAB and ABABB, focusing on unrequited hope.

Next please

Regular stanzas with a cycle of unrequited hope, coupled rhymes symbolizing regimented lives and death.

Going

Three tercets and a single line stanza with emphatic lines, no rhyme scheme, and a monosyllabic conclusion.

Wants

Two quintains with repetition, anaphora, and monotonous tone reflecting cyclical disappointment.

Maiden name

Three stanzas with ABBACC rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter, and traditional journey from maiden to wife.

Born Yesterday

Two stanzas with regular but asymmetrical rhyme scheme, colloquial tone, and witty sincerity.

Whatever happened?

Four tercets and a final couplet in sonnet form, formal structure with irregular meter.

No road

Three sextets with consistent ABABCC rhyme scheme, scattered metrical arrangement reflecting mixed emotions.

Wires

Two stanzas with detached voice, ABCD DCBA rhyme structure, and sense of confinement.

Age

Two stanzas in free verse with scattered rhyme, introspective tone, and impersonal voice.

Myxomatosis

Two quatrains with lack of gap between stanzas, no consistent rhyme scheme, and frenetic energy.

Spring

A sonnet with three stanzas of uneven line numbers, conveying wonder and perfection of spring.

Deceptions

Two stanzas with enclosed rhyme schemes, iambic pentameter, and scattered meter reflecting entrapment and suffering.