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Write a "Tyburn Poem." This is a difficult style that must be highly descriptive yet very concise.
A tyburn is a six line poem consisting of 2,2,2,2,9,9 syllables. The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lines as the 5th to 8th syllables. I have written an example.
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Doyal in Poetry & Free Verse

Dead Ringer of a Folk Singer, Humdinger of a Gunslinger

Fairly

Squarely

Rarely

Barely

Shot from the hip fairly, squarely true

Loaded clip but, rarely, barely drew