Tritina
The form of the Tritina is generally iambic pentameter, with three end-words (A,B,C) repeated and then enfolded in this manner:
A B C
C A B
B C A
A,B,C
It folds in on itself as a kind of mini-sestina.
Here's my first try: The End of the Trail
I really don’t know how to write this form, but challenge seems to always stir my pen, so here I go again to blaze a trail…
though I may fail, and birds may eat this trail of crumbs, or I may somehow misinform the ones who come behind, end in the Pen…
intentional or not. If so, my pen I’d utilize at last to spill entrails into sad lines I’d probably deform…
and chloroform from pen would end my trail.
© Daniel J Ricketts 25 July 2005
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