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Poem written in the Ziggurant Form

Ice Water
Air Flutter

Hot Cool Cold
Bought used sold
born young old

Long short big small
Up down short tall
Chirp screech whisle call
Walk Run Skp crawl

Weather changes seasons times four
Spring summer fall winter soar
Four beautiful seasons to adore
Colors smells tempatures sights explore
Life delights to your core.

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Note: 4/12//2025
by https://playground.poetry.blog/
The Ziggurat is a 14-line poem of 4 stanzas. Like the hay(na)ku, it is isoverbal, meaning its lines’ lengths are measured by the number of words instead of syllables or meter (thus my original name for it was the “Isoverbal Sonnet”). The first stanza is two lines of two words a piece, the second is 3 lines of 3 words apiece, the third is 4 lines of 4 words apiece, and the fourth and final is 5 lines of 5 words apiece. Each stanza uses a different monorhyme, thus the rhyme scheme can be expressed as aa bbb cccc dddd. Also another rule is the title must always consist of just one word.