I find that those who continue to strive to do the best usually come out on top. Here my grandson, Jeremy, is striving to do just that.

This poem is a 12 Line Exhortation.
A 12 Line Exhortation is a format that I created. It is a poem with 12 lines, starting and ending with a 2 syllable line that caries an exhortation, like; Get up!, Move on! Go jump! The whole syllable structure is:
2/8/8/8/4/4/8/8/8/4/4/2.
There is also a fixed rhyme scheme of:
AbbbaacccddA, where the capital letters are repeated lines.

I researched poetry types with 12 Lines to see what they are called. I found a group of poems called 12 Lines. But they are basically unstructured. I wanted some specific structure. I wanted a poem with 3 consecutive lines of rhyme, that played off 8/4/2 syllable counts and was positive in spirit. So I created this format and called it 12 Line Exhortation. I don't think this format previously exists, as far as I know.

This photograph was taken by the author himself in September of 2014.

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