before soon (a quintilla)

Ebb and flow goes the salty sea.
Welcome then goodbye goes the shore.
Fleeting foam on the sandy floor
will soon bow to the ocean’s knee.
Your now will soon be your before.

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03.26.2018
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In response to Blogging from A to Z Challenge and NaPoWriMo 2018.

Q is for Quintilla.

The Quintilla is a 16th century Spanish quintain with a rhyme scheme that is more about what cannot be done than what can be done.

The elements of the Quintilla are:

1. syllabic verse, octasyllabic (8 syllable lines)

2. stanzaic, written in any number of quintains (5 line stanzas).

3. In each quintain only 2 rhymes can be used and it cannot end in a rhyming couplet.

4. There is choice of rhyme schemes of ababa, abbab, abaab, aabab, or aabba

5. when written as a decastich, (2 quintillas) the verse is known as Copla Real.