The first stanza is a quatrain with the rhyme scheme a b b a.
There is a break at the end of this stanza, so line 4 should be end stopped.
The next stanza is a sestet with the rhyme scheme a c c d d c.
So, there's your challenge. I hope you'll join me this week in writing an Espinela. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
Event Internationάle
ReplyDeleteThe President chose to install
a governmental attaché
within the country, to convey
his greatest regret to Nepal.
Seen from beyond the White House wall
that action seemed to intimate
an inability of State,
or diplomatic incident.
From Congress was heard great lament,
results of which we’ll have to wait.
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