Caress...The Rictameter

Rictameter is a scheme similar to Cinquain. Starting your first line with a two syllable word, you then consecutively increase the number of syllables per line by two. i.e. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and then down again, 8, 6, 4, 2 making the final line the same two syllable word you used to begin.

The Rictameter

Caress

Perfect measure

Of pleasure and torment

Where the converging, not of skin

But of kinship in the meeting of minds

Nurtures sanguine satisfaction

While spawning desire

For its mystic

Caress

© Janet Martin

Poetic Bloomings invites us to try the rictameter form.