Thread: Ariette(A crafted form)

I don't know where to put this, so I put it here(because I will be writing some poems), but if it get's moved, I apologize. I wanted to introduce a crafted form of my own design to the forum, which I call an "Ariette". First, a word about the name. I really had no clue about what to call the form. It is a short form, slightly larger than a haiku, though perhaps smaller than a limerick.

The form is described as follows:

The first line consists of 4 feet, where a foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

The second line(and this one is a little tricky) consists of 3 and 1/2 feet, where a foot consists of first a stressed, then an unstressed syllable. Thus, the last half foot should be stressed. I can not stress that enough! It's very important!

The third line consists, again, 4 feet, with a foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

And the final, fourth line, consists of 3 feet, in the regular patter of a foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Furthermore, the 2nd and 4rth line must rhyme, while the 1st and 3rd line, must never rhyme.

Here two Ariettes: Written recently by myself(and the reason I posted this here):

Catholic Services
A message meant to catechize
only serves to seperate
and only earns the ill repute
of earnest men who hate

Porn Industry
A tiny bouncy blonde in bed
gives a man his only fun
but take her home to meet the crone
she'll turn around and run

I encourage(and indeed, would love to see!) members of the forum write their own Ariettes!

hey die why don't put these Ariettes in the Poetry Prompts?
I need to reread and get practicing..ask one the mod and they should move it there.

It appears that it has been done so.

hey cool...now it will take me a while to work out the ariette..reading all the instructions is making my head dizzy
I think |I will just try and work it out through the ones you wrote, the poems I mean

Sure. Here are a few more, for reference:

Lady
Of all his conquests never found
intimately sought from her
a joyful bliss that she might give
but coldly she averred

Resemblance
My sons, we look alike tonight
time to share the secret held
your mother, I, hermanos sly
the time was ripe, she felt

Aristocracy
Concerned with cashly men in town
making money not their way
they set up statements, make decrees
to force the crooks away

Anyone else want to give it a go?

:edit:

A simplified version of the rules: *note* DA == a stressed syllable, da == an unstressed syllable.

Thus, the pattern is like this:

daDA-daDA-daDA-daDA
DAda-DAda-DAda-DA*
daDA-daDA-daDA-daDA
daDA-daDA-daDA*

* == rhyming lines.