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Ekphrastic Dectina Refrain
Karin Anderson, AU
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The Dectina Refrain Form
The Dectina Refrain
is a syllable counted form containing ten lines; lines 1 through
9 incrementally increase successive lines by adding one
syllable: 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/. Example: line 2 has 2
syllables/ line 5 has 5 syllables/ line 9 has 9 syllables. The
9th line contains the 10 syllables of lines 1 through 4 repeated
as a monostich; line 10 is the refrain. |
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