The sevenling is a poem of, yes, seven lines. The lines come in two groups of three, and then there's a final line that traditionally acts as a punch-line.
The first sevenling was probably written by the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, but the form her poem took was named by Roddy Lumsden and used by him as a useful template for teaching and imitation.
Here's Anna Akhmatova's original poem:
He loved three things alone:
White peacocks, evensong,
Old maps of America.
He hated children crying,
Old raspberry jam with his tea,
And womanish hysteria.
And he married me.
As one might expect from a woman who doesn't believe her husband loves her, things didn't go exactly smoothly.
Word To Use Today: sevenling. The word seven was seofan in Old English and goes right back to the Sanskrit word saptรก. The word-ending -ling is Gothic.
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