Bryant

Hi, again I am taking on one of murisopsis’s poetry forms from, ‘My Name scavenger hunt’, see link: https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2022/08/31/looking-at-names/

This is the penultimate one for me, the Bryant, in 1977 Viola Berg described the Bryant, as observations of nature as metaphor for the social and political world around us. This stanzaic form is patterned after To A Water Foul by American poet, William Cullen Bryant 1794 – 1878 (pictured above).

The Bryant comprises of stanzas written in quatrains, metered, L1,L4 trimeter and L2,L3 are pentameter. Short lines are indented, alternating rhymed quatrains, abab cdcd etc, with a pastoral metaphor. Here is mine, ‘Rambling’:

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