Inverted Refrain
The Inverted Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of four 6-line stanzas, for a total of
24 lines. The first four lines of a stanza create a statement from which the last 2 lines extract
the meaning, and invert the way it was said. The last two lines of each stanza, which are the
‘inverted refrain’, are indented as a couplet.
The Inverted Refrain is a rhyming poem with a set meter and rhyme scheme as follows:
Rhyme scheme per stanza:
Lines #1-4 are abab;
Lines #5 and #6, the two inverted refrain lines, can be ab or ba.
Meter: 8 syllables in every line.
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