Alfalfa
(An Octogram)
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Alfalfa blooms with bursting buds,
Purple and white.
Not the stuff of songs and ballads,
They still excite.
It’s often confused with clover.
If you closely look it over,
You’ll enjoy a delightful sight,
Purple and white.
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Frequently used farming methods:
Setting soil right,
Fine hay for horse feed and cow cuds,
They chew and bite.
Makes it a healthy forage food!
Their flowers set a lovely mood.
Alfalfa blooms with bursting buds,
Purple and white.
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Author Notes
Another flower in my wildflower series.
The Octogram is a style of poetry invented by Fanstorian Sally Yocom (S.Yocom). It consists of two stanzas of eight lines each, with a very specific syllable count and rhyme scheme. Syllable count is 84848884, repeat on second stanza. Rhyme scheme:ABabccbB ababddbB, where B repeats same text. For this poem I changed it to ABabccbB ababddAB. No more than 16 lines. The tempo is tetrameter on the 8 count line, and dimeter on the 4 count line, but not iambic.
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