Sorta Sapphic Pterodactyl
They challenged me to do a syllabic thing
Easy peasy I said, and started counting
But then they threw in Sapphic pterodactyls
I just couldn't hang
Not one to give up on the very first try
I looked over the instructions with fresh eye
But then they started talking about trochee
I'm no good with crafts
The syllables were likely as stressed as I
I knew not before that syllables have feet
Or feet have syllables as the case may be
I learned something
~Lily~
The Instructions:
Our (optional) prompt for today departs from such concerns, however. Today, rather than being casual, I challenge you to get rather classically formal, and compose a poem in Sapphics. These are quatrains whose first three lines have eleven syllables, and the fourth, just five. There is also a very strict meter that alternates trochees (a two-syllable foot, with the first syllable stressed, and the second unstressed) and dactyls (a three-syllable foot, with the first syllable stressed and the remainder unstressed). The first three lines consist of two trochees, a dactyl, and two more trochees. The fourth line is a dactyl, followed by a trochee.
