kosma form

It was the basic form of asic poetry. It did not regulate the length of verse lines, but it defines the structure of the poem. The verses contain 4 lines, their rhyme pattern is the following: xaxa bbba ccca ddda ... or xAxA bbbA cccA dddA ... In the last verse the poet named himself in his code name (mahlas). Lines contain 8,11 rarely 7 or 15 syllables.

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