Competition: Masculine Rhyme

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Masculine Rhyme

Patterns of Sound

Rhyme is the repetition of identical or similar stressed sound or sounds. Rhyme is, presumably, pleasant in itself; it suggests order; and it also may related to meaning, for it brings two words sharply together, often implying a relationship, as in the now trite dove and love, or perhaps the more imaginative throne and alone.

Objective

Your objective is to write a short poem using a Masculine Rhyme. The final syllable are stressed and, after their differing initial consonant sounds, are identical in sound (stark-mark; support-retort).

Competition Information
Parent Competition
A Period of Poetry
Organized by
Lieutenant Creon Neverse
Running time
2022-04-01 until 2022-04-30 (about 1 month)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Poetry
Awards
Second Level Crescents
Participants
6 subscribers, of which 5 have participated.
Results
Member
General Ronovi Tavisaen
Textual submission

Your shape - your violent body, causing storms
to my soul makes me flinch. It all deforms
beneath my palm - the flesh rising and falling,
while ugly mem'ries I begin recalling -
of men with knives and women with black chains,
deliv'ring pain that returns when it rains.
I want the ache in my bones just to fade,
and even in your bed, MY bed is made.

Placement
1st place
2nd place
Sera Kaern
Member
Sera Kaern
Textual submission

Shatter

In years come hence, those writers far,
With ink-stained hands and face unscarred,
Will call my fall, the bloody ruin, inevitable.
But hear their words, and know they are not creditable,
They were not here, they did not see, how could they ever know,
That my homeland, its people brave, did not need fall to woe.

Placement
2nd place
Member
Blade Master Aiden Lee Deshra
Textual submission

The rage that was in me I have finally beat

The fires in my soul have been left to defeat

My life has made way, let me earn my respect

No longer my mind wishing pain to deflect

Placement
3rd place
Member
General Socorra Tenebrosa Nhar’qual Erinos
Textual submission

War begins in the very end of May,
Clearing my schedule or I will fray,
My kids and family they will wait,
For my thirst for war I must sate.

Placement
No placement
Member
Sage Enzo Dek
Textual submission

I am the memelord, master of yeet,
I see no one above me, no defeat,
I am the god of all gifs, I suckled from my mother's teet too,
Unfortunately my mother was a cow, MOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Placement
No placement