Tte Muse

Teh. 🔊

Great news!
A noble stay
Tte muse

Inspire
Write a new verse
Expire

All set
My, oh my dear
Musette

A subconcious slight paraphrase of ‘Small But Refined’ by Emily Romano

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So, Shadow Poetry website provides two examples of the musette form, with different rhyme schemes for the middle section (second stanza): cdd and cdc; as far as I know cdc is the preferred form, mantaining “symmetry” (aba cdc efe).

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Syllabication considered, do you pronounce inspire and expire with two or three syllables? As it would rhyme with hire and/or higher, are these homophones or is hire monossylabic?

Anyways, for the musette, is the syllable count considered up until the last stressed syllable of the verse or the actual last syllable? I’m assuming the latter, but I’m more familiar with the former.

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A shout-out to Ryan Stone, who introduced me to the musette form through his beautiful poem:

Daughter of the Plains