Couplet Train.
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Couplet:
A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length, termed "closed" when they form
a bounded grammatical unit like a sentence, and termed "heroic" in 17th- and 18th-century verse
when serious in subject, five-foot iambic in form, and holding a complete thought.

For this exercise lets take a foot as meaning two syllables.
The exercise consists of writing half a couplet (see above for couplet) that is connected to the couplet before it, and posting the finished article in a post that contains both yours and the preceding couplets.

No feedback will be given except to keep the thing on track. Please make sure the lines of each couplet
have a different sounding end rhyme than the preceding couplet and contains ten syllables per line. (in modern language).
The idea for this one came from Touchstone.

I'll start the ball rolling;

Quote:The village green awaits the yearly fete.
It marks the place and time where people meet.

Emden geese forage through the grassy reeds

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The village green awaits the yearly fete.
It marks the place and time where people meet.

Emden geese forage through the grassy reeds.
Their throats accompany their hungry deeds.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe
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The village green awaits the yearly fete.
It marks the place and time where people meet.

Emden geese forage through the grassy reeds.
Their throats accompany their hungry deeds.
With wings outstretched they cackle like old crones
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The village green awaits the yearly fete.
It marks the place and time where people meet.

Emden geese forage through the grassy reeds.
Their throats accompany their hungry deeds.

With wings outstretched they cackle like old crones,
While in the distance bored boys and girls moan.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe
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