octave (an eight-line stanza) followed by a sestet (a six-line stanza), both in iambic pentameter. writing either an octave or a sestet, essentially half a sonnet.
While petrarchan sonnet stanzas also rhyme according to a specific pattern, yours need not follow any predetermined rhyme pattern. You can choose any rhyme pattern you think appropriate or you could write in blank verse if you prefer.
Here is an example of an octave:
I find no peace, and have no arms for war,
and fear and hope, and burn and yet I freeze,
and fly to heaven, lying on earth’s floor,
and nothing hold, and all the world I seize.
My jailer opens not, nor locks the door,
nor binds me to hear, nor will loose my ties;
Love kills me not, nor breaks the chains I wear,
nor wants me living, nor will grant me ease.
Here is an example of a sestet:
I have no tongue, and shout; eyeless, I see;
I long to perish, and I beg for aid;
I love another, and myself I hate.
Weeping I laugh, I feed on misery,
by death and life so equally dismayed:
for you, my lady, am I in this state.
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