List: FORM: Rispetto

A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry, is a complete poem of two rhyme quatrains with strict meter.

The meter is usually iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd.

A Heroic Rispetto is written in Iambic pentameter, usually featuring the same rhyme scheme.

Reference: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/rispetto.html

• Moonlight’s Gaze

  In moonlight’s gaze I step upon
  moist tiles of grass amidst the stones;

  8 lines, 16 comments, on May 7 6:59 AM. In Dance, Rispetto, iambic tetrameter

• By me, right now

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by BearWoman

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