The word sheshire is derived from the Hebrew words shesh and shir or shira meaning six poem. Thus the SHESHIRE style is based on six-line verses with a closing couplet. The sheshire is attributed to Charles David Lipsig and below are the rules:

• The Sheshire is comprised of three stanzas of 6 lines with a rhyme scheme of either ABABAB or ABCABC. Completed by a rhymed couplet.
• Each line has the same number of syllables. The one exception to this is the last line, which may have up to six additional syllables. The additional syllables must be a phrase that is set aside (by parenthesis or dashes, for example). If this aside is removed, the correct syllable count would be there and the line would remain a reasonable sentence.
• Each stanza should have a shift in tone. The ending couplet should leave the reader (or at least the poet) with a grin. It can be a darkly ironic grin, but a grin, nonetheless.

Example by Charles David Lipsig:

excerpt from Cheshire

I’ve looked at a king and laughed at a duchess,
Escorted a small girl through the woods and wild,
Indeed, I have done a whole much of muchness.
The deeds that I’ve performed are scarcely compiled
By wide-eyed children and writers -- Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson is but one of many I’ve beguiled.

But there’s much more to me -- and much less, likewise.
I’ve been but a shadow who danced on a wall,
The faint yellowish glow that through the swamp flies,
The sound of distant trains or coyote’s call
That disappear as dreams when the sun does rise.
Even through dreams themselves, I’ve been known to crawl.