Chanso poems adapt to the poet’s need and want. A French form, it consists of five or six stanzas with an envoi about half the size of one of the stanzas.
The length and structure of the stanzas is at the poets choosing, however, each line of the poem should have the same syllabic length and each stanza should be of the same line length and rhyme scheme.
Example
Wedding Photo by JezzieG
The love smiling on their faces
Their vow made for life and for time
A promise sworn in youthful prime
Unpacking honeymoon cases
Romantic Italian places
The memories of a lifetime
Their Venice kiss as the bells chime
A seal of love the heart graces
Such a love ticks all the bases
When living in the city grime
So country walks and mountains climb
For the quiet of peaceful spaces
Time passes; it leaves no traces
A disease committing the crime
Their love was running out of time
In death there are no embraces
The love smiling on their faces
Their vow made for life and for time
Jezzie G 
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