Spontaneous Combustion (Trolaan)

Brontide unfettered
balefully engaged,
ballistic petard
banefully raged.

Rabidly cumbrous
raiding tors,
raspingly callous
ribald sores.

Aboriginally placid
abruptly taken,
active acid
actually forsaken.

Brontide unfettered
balefully engaged,
ballistic petard
banefully outraged.

© Copyright 2009 By: Italian Stallion

*Written for a contest*

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The Trolaan, created by Valerie Peterson Brown, is a poem consisting of 4 quatrains. Each quatrain begins with the same letter. The rhyme scheme is abab.

Starting with the second stanza you use the second letter of the first line of the first stanza to write the second each line beginning with that letter.

On the third stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the second stanza and write the third each line beginning with that letter.

On the fourth stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the third stanza and write the fourth each line beginning with that letter.

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[*This was a challenge made by Jen (Jennifer RIP Lesthat Hayden). The challenge was to write a poem using 9 words I have never heard of before.]