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Original poem reprinted online here: "The Frog Pool" by James Martin Devaney Originally read: May 11, 2013 More information about the Poet: James Martin Devaney Rhyming sestets.  So I actually have a purpose of announcing the form at the beginning.  Past me wrote down that the rhyme scheme is "sing songy -- goes with the absurdity of the poem.  AABBCC.  Also most of the lines are end-stopped.  Usually my mind would gloss over with this type of poem, but this one interested me because this reads like a fable. Also, my bias is that anything with "Frog" and "pool" anywhere in the poem has to do with Basho's famous poem about the old pond. Weirdly though, after reading this poem more and more, I think this poem successfully detaches itself from the allusion because of the rhyme scheme, the content, the humor, and all within a form. The first stanza starts out with the passage of time and the effects -- time passes, the pool shrinks.  The anthropomorph...