The Nonet is a form that has nine lines, you start with nine syllables on the first line, then subtract one syllable per each subsequent lines that follow to one syllable in the ninth:


Colors of bright silk pajamas streak the sky
over a bed of sea sussurant
to his rolling waking, losing
his crimson mein, crawling
slowly into a
candle lit blue
sky, the day
begins
fresh


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