This poetic form is called a Rosette. It starts with 9 words, and each line has one less word until you get to one. Then you start adding one word to each line until you get back up to 9 words. Hence, 9,1,9. The first and last line are the same. Here's where I learned about it:

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr079.shtml

I think a better title for the form would have been Hourglass, but hey, the creator was only in 7th grade.

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