The Vers Beaucoup (which is French for “many rhymes”) is a poetic form created by Curt Mongold.
Each stanza consists of four lines with a rhyming word scheme of:
a-a-a-
a-b-b-
b-c-c-
c-d-d
Each rhyme can only use a MAXIMUM of three words.
The fourth “a” rhyme carried over to the second line causes enjambment and creates a strong internal rhyming structure.
The poem can be any number of stanzas.
The examples of the form are below with the rhyming words capitalized and colorized for clarity:
WALT’S ORIGINAL EXAMPLE:
MIXED PRECIPITATION
I KNOW by the GLOW of the SNOW
a SHOW was SET to begin. But if we GET
WET then the RAIN is what will STAIN
and REMAIN to be FOUND on the GROUND all day!
© Walter J. Wojtanik, 2014
WALT’S NEW EXAMPLE:
A BABY CHANGES THINGS
The day YOU DO the VOODOO
that YOU DO, it’ll be STRANGE how life will CHANGE,
REARRANGE. We will be GLAD that you HAD
a Mom and DAD that would DARE to CARE to have you!
© Walter J Wojtanik – 2019