Rhyme Royal, it sounds familiar,

Limerick, No, I'm not speaking of Moby Dick 

LESSON 1:

Did you know that Rhyme Royal is a poem having seven lines with a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b-b-c-c. It is usually in iambic pentameter. Iamb is a metrical foot that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. Penta means five. Pentameter means in a line there are five metrical feet or five iambs.

How to write a rhyme royal? Maybe a quatrain and a tercet can be a good start ( ab-ab, b-c-c) Here's an example of Rhyme Royal from the stanza Chaucer used in his great Troilus and Criseyde (which he based on Boccaccio's II Filostrato). It consists of seven iambic pentameter lines riming ababbcc.

The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen,               A

That was the kyng Priamus sone of Troye,       B

In lovynge, how his aventures fellen                  A

Fro wo to wele, and after out of joie,                 B

My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye.                   B

Thesiphone, thow help me for t'endite             C

Thise woful vers, that wepen as I write.            C

      (Troilus and Criseyde, Bk 1, 1-7)

Here's my work when I tried to make one =)

COLD YET HOT 

when the darkness comes and we're together

lying on the same bed I used to moan

as you look at me, my heart beats faster

you're whispering something that chills my bone

"you taste so sweet compared to a chiffon"

as you kiss my body, can't barely move

we make love and the bed starts to groove

LESSON 2: 

A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm. The third and fourth lines  need to have five to seven syllables, and have to rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm. 

An example of this is below by Lewis Caroll

To Miss Vera Beringer 

There was a young lady of station                     A

"I love man" was her sole exclamation             A

But when men cried, "You flatter"                    B

She replied, "Oh! no matter                               B

Isle of Man is the true explanation"                  A

I also made my own limerick =)

INTENSE

you undo my bra, I felt rush

you kiss my nape, my face gets blush

you touches my body

whispering "hey sexy"

you're above me and in the rush



Do not be afraid of trying something new. Sometimes, you just have to and you will find happiness in it.

There are a lot of ideas around you. You just have to explore, open your eyes and soul. Once you find your spot, start writing. Enjoy life, start a change, feel free to discover the inner you. Delve for something you aim, you thought or believed in.

Love, appreciate, relish life and savor everything in it. Life is full of spices. You just have to encompass every moment. From there, you will find inspirations that you can use in writing.