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Mid Swap


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The Mid-Swap is an invented verse form found at World of Poets and is attributed to Jenny Buzzard of England.

The elements of the Mid-Swap are:

  1. an 18 line poem made up of 2 quatrains, a couplet, 2 more quatrains in that order.
  2. syllabic, lines of 8 syllables each.
  3. rhymed, A1abb ccdd A2A1 eeff - ggaA2
  4. composed with 2 refrains. L1 is repeated as L10 and L9 is repeated as L18.

~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~

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