Foxes - Size Matters

Than Bauk poem with a circular stairway format.

Foxes - Size Matters

When foxes hunt
in the front goes
the runt. Who cares
if a snare is
tripped? Where else should
a no good runt
go? Would you lose
the chief? Muse long
but choose the runt
in the front when
you hunt, foxes!

Form: Than Bauk
Three lines of four syllables have a descending rhyme (fourth syllable, then third, then second), but you can add more lines by restarting the descent again. The form is nicknamed "Stairway", and I decided to use a circular stairway so that I would return to my beginning.

O. O. O. a
O. O. a. O
O. a. O. b
O. O. b. O
O. b. O. c
O. O. c. O
O. c. O. d. etc.

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