Terrible Poetry

A poetic form intended to express grief over a chosen subject, originating in The Mists of Winding. The poem is a single couplet. It is always written from the perspective of a relative of the author. Use of metaphor is characteristic of the form. The second line of the couplet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The first line concerns the past. It has five feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven-even. The second line concerns current events. It has four feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-even.

Okay, we're going to have to do a little research here.

A foot is the basic metrical unit of (at the very least) English poetry and its translations: each foot consists a set of stressed/unstressed syllables grouped into various categories. The feet that the poem is giving us are (taking 'uneven' as unstressed/short and 'even' as stressed/long)

even-uneven-even/long-short-long/Cretic/"crocodile"

and

uneven-even-even/short-long-long/Bacchius/"My heart aches".

The chance that I might be reading this wrong and that the the even/uneven correspondence works the other way round would lead to another set of feet entirely.

Anyway, the first line has five Cretic feet, for a total of fifteen syllables in the long-short-long form. The second has four Bacchius (Bacchii? Bacchic feet?), for a total of twelve syllables in short-long-long form.