Beauty of Butterflies – Photo Credit

Butterflies with their brightly colored wings
fluttering around the flower garden
searching, investigating everything
using the antennas as sense organs
perching on an object if not certain.
Some butterflies have organs for hearing
with a loud noise, their stay maybe shorten
causing them to flight and disappearing
the dry and hot seasons can cause starving
they love gardens and are not a burden.

Decuain (pronounced “deck-WAN”) was created by Shelley A. Cephas.

It is a decastich written in one single stanza on any subject.

  • This form feels a little more traditional than some of the others we have studied because all the lines are written in iambic pentameter.
  • There are only three rhyming sounds in the decuain, but you have three set choices for rhyme scheme.
  • The rhyme scheme of the first 8 lines is always ababbcbc.
  • The rhyme for lines 9-10 may be: aa, bb, or cc.
  • My Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccc