Theme : I open the doors of my heart to…

Spring sowed seeds in our days skeletal,

Love bloomed again once we opened the heart’s door,

A new canvas we drew, with a fresh sequel.

 

How we were lost in the waves tidal,

Though our strained souls in pain wore,

Spring sowed seeds in our days skeletal.

 

The grim tempest seemed infernal,

Though we fumbled to swim ashore,

A new canvas we drew, with a fresh sequel.

 

The caliginous clouds made us tremble,

Though heated words we exchanged shook our core,

Spring sowed seeds in our days skeletal.

 

Our crumbled lives turned dismal,

But once our egos shattered love did pour,

A new canvas we drew, with a fresh sequel.

 

Our story might have seemed fragile,

But,once all differences we chose to ignore,

Spring sowed seeds in our days skeletal,

A new canvas we drew, with a fresh sequel.

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Written as a 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲

The Villanelle is known for its repeated lines and a refrain. It consists of five tercets and a quatrain (6 stanzas or 19 lines in total). The form is expressed this way:

 

A1 b A2 (1st tercet)

a b A1 (2nd tercet)

a b A2 (3rd tercet)

a b A1 (4th tercet)

a b A2 (5th tercet)

a b A1 A2 (a quatrain; last stanza-serves as the poem’s concluding lines)

The capitals are for the refrains and lowercase letters are for the rhymes.

 

𝗣𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 : Bing