
Kryptonite: A Kyrielle
©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer
Beneath the tenacious facade,
envy and doubt’s nest has been made,
pushing out contentment and might,
everyone’s got a kryptonite.
Beaming smiles, pretentious laughters,
deep inside lies despaired monsters,
eating hopes inside frail young heart
everyone’s got a kryptonite.
Breaking free of the tainted past,
criminal mind erased at last,
then pregnant wife was killed one night,
everyone’s got a kryptonite.
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Photo credit: Redd Angelo
In response to Blogging from A to Z Challenge: K is for Kyrielle.

Kyrielle
Kyrielle, a member of the Lai Family of forms, is a narrative stanzaic form with a refrain attributed to the troubadours of the Middle Ages. The name kyrielle comes from Kyrie eleison (Lord Have Mercy) in the Kyrie, which is sung or chanted as part of the Catholic Mass as well as some other Christian liturgies during the season of Lent.
The Kyrielle is:
- a narrative, it tells a story.
- stanzaic, most commonly written in a minimum of 3 quatrains. Occasionally it is written in rhyming couplets.
- syllabic, each line is 8 syllables. In English it is often written in iambic tetrameter.
- written with a refrain in the 4th line of the quatrain or when written in rhyming couplets the refrain is 2nd line of the couplet.
- rhymed, rhyme scheme may vary. Quatrain options abaB, cbcB, dbdB, or abbA accA or aabB ccbB or axaB cxcB B being the refrain and x being unrhymed. Couplets aA bB cC dD etc.
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