Between my paused breaths, Mon amour, I yearn,
My vapid eyes shed tears with gnawing pain,
Like wilted roses, piece by piece I fall,
My tarnished verses pine for thy return.
Spring vanished sadly, autumn seems so stern,
A distant winter storm doth brew with rage,
My unheard songs echo in deep despair,
Between my paused breaths, Mon amour, I yearn.
Our soulful hearts with passion once did burn,
The sands of time- it shoved us far apart,
In salvaged embers oft I seek solace,
My tarnished verses pine for thy return.
Between my paused breaths, Mon amour, I yearn,
And garner all redolent moments past,
My tarnished verses pine for thy return.
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This poem though written in Villonnet style doesn’t strictly follow iammbic pentameter in a few lines.
Villonnet
Created by D. Allen Jenkins, a Villonnet is a cross between the Villanelle and the Sonnet. It has the Iambic Pentameter of both, but holds the four-stanza/line structure of the sonnet, while utilizing the two-line rhyme nature of the villanelle. The final stanza replaces the sonnet couplet with a typical villanelle tercet. It either keeps the 2 rhymes of the Villanelle or eliminates the second rhyme of the Villanelle, and rhymes only the anterior lines of the stanzas:
Simply put, for this particular event, you are required to pen a villonnet considering its guidelines:
~a poem in 15 lines, made up of 3 quatrains followed by a tercet (4 stanzas total)
~metric: iambic pentameter [a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one lonf (or stressed) syllables: in other words, each line has 10 syllables and all the EVEN (2nd ,4th, 6th, 8th, 10th) syllable𝘴 are stressed].
~rhyming scheme:
𝘈¹𝘹𝘹𝘈²
𝘢𝘹𝘹𝘈¹
𝘢𝘹𝘹𝘈²
𝘈¹𝘹𝘈²
[X being unrhymed (the superscript numbers signify repeated lines: L1 is repeated as L8 and L13 and L4 is repeated as L12 and L15)]
This poem secured third place in the montly poetry contest held by Penmancy.
https://penmancy.com/embers-of-love/
Picture Credit : Pixabay
