I loved this prompt from Denise Krebs on Ethical ELA’s #verselove.
It is called a 4 X 4 poem. Below are the constraints:
- 4 syllables in each line
- 4 lines in each stanza
- 4 stanzas
- Refrain repeated four times in lines 1, 2, 3, 4 of stanzas 1, 2, 3, 4.
Bonus: Try writing a title in four syllables
spring daffodils just greenery tips of sunshine perched and ready checking daily spring daffodils when will you come? it's been four weeks two fallen blooms awaiting more spring daffodils always past due maybe today? I can sense it the brink of joy spring daffodils
One Blessed Block 
I always anticipated the spring daffodils just as you wrote…waiting, searching, hoping and then ecstatic with the first ones that always seemed to have partners. Love your poem because we don’t get the daffodils in TX like we did in MO. 🙂
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Thanks for reading, Debbie!
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I enjoyed how you sprinkled in questions amongst your verses. It felt like a conversation about Spring. A lovely poem, thanks for sharing
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Thank you for reading! I hadn’t thought of it in that way!
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Love this poem and love daffodils. This structure is new to me. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for reading Rita!
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I love how your “spring daffodils” moved through each stanza until they finally arrived in the final line, like the blooms themselves!
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I loved the structure of this type of poem. Thanks for reading!
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A lovely poem on my favorite spring flower that happens to be my favorite color! I will have to try the 4 x 4 poem. I like the structure, too! Thanks for sharing!
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