Dipodic Quatrain - Podic Verse

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English Verse

Dipodic Quatrain is a quatrain written in podic or folk meter with 2 stressed syllables per line.

• Podic Verse or folk meter is a measure of verse simply based on the number of heavily stressed syllables in a rhymed line. The number of unstressed syllables are not considered. It is a hold over from Alliterative verse of the Anglo Saxons but instead of the irregular strophic verse, stanzas and rhyme are employed, something learned from the Normans.

The elements of the Dipodic Quatrain are:

1. stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
2. podic, written with 2 heavy stresses per line with no regard to the number of unstressed syllables.
3. rhymed, rhyme scheme either abab cdcd etc. or aabb ccdd etc.

   Crisis by Judi Van Gorder

   Trouble is here
   folks out of work
   lost career
   no pork.
   
   Money tight
   rolling up sleeves
   taxes bite
   family cleaves.