Some secrets about poetry that people have nearly forgotten, and that explain why it is such an ill-regarded and degenerate art:

1) Poetry needs to be read aloud.

2) Poetry needs formality not because formality itself is cool, not because traditions of particular formalities are cool, but exactly and only because it is a way of setting apart poetry from prose-- it creates sacred space. The only goal of formalisms in poetry is signal the audience it's supposed to breathlessly engage its imagination. Were it not for that, formalism would be laughable and worthless.


So anyway, with those two things in mind, I created a very narrow form, and these are a couple examples. The traits are:

Iambic or Dactylic (alternating stressed and unstressed syllables)
Heptameter (seven iambs or dactyls per line)
Five lines.
A dual rhyme scheme (the masculine rhymes are at the line breaks, the other rhyme appears once every ten syllables) based on splitting a one-syllable word with a dipthong for its vowel (like "mouse" and "lion") into two seperate rhymes, that converge on the final word in the final line.