Poetry Guide: Solage
Solage is a specific form of humorous verse with the following properties:
- It has three lines (called the hook, the line and the sinker) of irregular length.
- The rhyming structure is AAB.
- The third line is a pun based on the previous two lines.
The form was invented by the Sydney-based performance poet Cameron M. Semmens.
Examples
- If you don't care a bit
- Where your arrow hit...
- Aim less
- They did not mishandle
- Creating the scandal:
- Proper-gate
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