Daily duty and bountiful booty
with glittery glitz and old fashioned gritty grits.
Morning menu, virtual venue,
taking pills for ills and then swiping up spills.
Rutted ruts, eating our guts
in wacky ways, and dreadfully dead days.
Monotony makes us eat flaky flakes
Author's Notes/Comments:
The Alliterisen
(Complex and Rhyming), a form created by Udit Bhatia, is a simple seven-lined
poem with a specific syllable pattern and two alliterations per line. For example: Glorious Graves, and wonderful waves. Alliteration is the succession of similar consonant sounds. They are not recognized by spelling, but rather by sounds. The syllable structure for the Complex Alliterisen is as follows:
1st line- x syllables
2nd line- x+2 syllables
3rd line- x-1 syllables
4th line- (x+2)-1 syllables
5th line- x-2 syllables
6th line- (x+2)-2 syllables
7th line- x syllables
