Clouds (Than-Bauk)
clouds on a twist
not with gist but
in mist they cry
A Than-Bauk, conventionally a witty saying or epigram, is a three line "climbing rhyme" poem of Burmese origin.
Each line has four syllables. The rhyme is on the fourth syllable of the first line,
the third syllable of the second line, and the second syllable of the third line.
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Submitted on March 20, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | X X X X A A |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 326 |
Words | 61 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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