Alankar(Decor)-111 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Python(Than bauk)


The Than bauk is:

syllabic,4 syllables per line.
a tristich, a poem in 3 lines..
composed with 'climbing rhyme',
the rhyme appears in the 4th syllable of L1, the 3rd syllable of L2,
and the 2nd syllable of L3.


Python

He scrolls upward
Curls downward, hangs
Wayward from tree

His prey will come-
Preyed wholesome played
Gruesome in turns

Time snakes along
Life's age long preys
So long God deals