Jeffrey Dean Morgan speaks a great 3 stanza monologue poem as Negan on AMC TV show “The Walking Dead: Dead City”.
In this monologue poem, Negan is trying to persuade his frenemy, Maggie, to let go of what happened between them in the past.
This monologue poem versifies into 3 octaves (8 line stanzas) that each have this palindromic rhyme scheme. x,a,b,c,c,b,a,x.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that there are more syllables toward the middle of each stanza than there are at the beginning or end. Even that is palindromic. Because you begin with just a couple of syllables, increase the syllables in the middle and then return to just a few syllables at the end.
If I were to perform this poem, I would emphasize the 2 ideas discussed above: 1) the weird palindromic rhyme scheme and 2) increase in syllable count toward the middle of the stanza.
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James Ivan 