Triple Tetractys For The Pacific Trash Vortex Poem by Marieta Maglas

The rules for writing a Tetractys are as follows: Line 1 is one syllable syllable A segment of speech usually consists of a vowel with or without accompanying consonant sounds (e.g., a, I, out, too, cap, snap, check) . A syllabic consonant, like the final n sound in button and widen, also constitutes a syllable. line 2 is two syllables; line 3 is three syllables; line 4 is four syllables; and line 5, is ten syllables. The fourth and fifth lines may rhyme or rhyme, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification. Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry and rhyme were practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans. But this is not mandatory.