under the sea where the mighty king lived
his hair lengthy and his body so lean
the king saw her and made her his captive
we would never know what went in between
why did she keep coming back to the sea?
perhaps he promised her to be his queen
under the sea, there was lots of algae
and the sound of water flowing over
folks said she was as pretty as could be
lady swam into the wide blue yonder
was it to be with him at his kingdom?
pure white beach surrounding the sea azure
sometime later on she wanted freedom
sadly, but there was no way she could leave
she was then bored and he was so loathsome
she kept asking him, he was getting peeved
and then he did something unscrupulous
something horrifying, it made us grieve
that was the anecdote under the sea
she was fiercely taken, she couldn’t flee
under the sea where the mighty king lived
the king saw her and made her his captive*
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* The Lauranelle, created by Laura Lamarca, is a hybrid (variation) of both the Villanelle and the Terzanelle forms. The poem is 22 lines in length opposed to the 19-line length of the aforementioned classical forms. Lines MUST be 10 syllables in length and also MUST be in iambic pentameter.
Rhyme scheme is as follows: aba bcb cdc ded efe fbf ggA(1)A(2)
Lines 1 and 3 MUST be repeated at Lines 21 and 22.
Poems can either be formatted in stanzas or as a whole piece without line-spacing
For: Microfiction challenge #19: Under the sea by Jane Dougherty
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