3 line 4 stanza poem
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Y PHILIP LARKIN
They you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
This is from his short collection High Windows published by Faber & Faber in 1974. There must be many examples of 3-stanza poems. It’s early in the morning and this is the first that came to mind. Perhaps because I know it by heart and have done ever since I first came across it when I first got interested in poetry (reading it and writing it) in the early 1990s
Sonnets (14 lines of iambic pentameters, usually) are occasionally laid out in 3 stanzas. Here’s one by James Turner, from A Chance of Love: Sonnets of Two Decades, published by Oversteps Books in 2015.
Autumn Wednesday
I’m older than I’ve ever been before.
As each day dawns I’m older by a day.
The grub that gobbled Tuesday’s wanting more.
It’s name is time, and time is here to stay.
It’s chomping started back when I did. Then,
it scared the child I was and made him ill,
though once or twice before the age of ten
it stopped, a glimpse of calm that haunts me still.
Time’s not a problem these days anyhow,
It’s speed cannot be slowed, and I don’t try,
for now will always go on being now
though day may follow day until I die.
That falling leaf. Those unseen running feet