Brocket
"Gail White... launches a new verse form ('perhaps better described as a verse game'), to be called the 'brocket,'" Light Quarterly announced in 1995. "The basic brocket unit is the quatrain..., each one containing an attempt to create, by the use of hyphenated words, a rhyme where no rhyme exists in the English language." Since then a good number of brockets have appeared in the magazine, some several quatrains long.
Tom Swick, author of the brockets below, expresses doubt about whether one of them still qualifies as a brocket; since publishing it, he's learned of an unhyphenated rhyme for "poison."
Brocket is Gail White's maiden name.
| Good girls and good boys, un- less suicidal, would never take poison. 'Twould render them idle. --Tom Swick |
I'm not one to knock lit- tle vices, as such; but don't you like chocolate a little too much? --Tom Swick |
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