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Beauty of Butterflies

Jan 3

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Butterflies with their brightly colored wings
fluttering around the flower garden
searching, investigating everything
using the antennas as sense organs
perching on an object if not certain.
Some butterflies have organs for hearing
with a loud noise, their stay maybe shorten
causing them to flight and disappearing
the dry and hot seasons can cause starving
they love gardens and are not a burden.

Decuain (pronounced “deck-WAN”) was created by Shelley A. Cephas.

It is a decastich written in one single stanza on any subject.

  • This form feels a little more traditional than some of the others we have studied because all the lines are written in iambic pentameter.
  • There are only three rhyming sounds in the decuain, but you have three set choices for rhyme scheme.
  • The rhyme scheme of the first 8 lines is always ababbcbc.
  • The rhyme for lines 9-10 may be: aa, bb, or cc.
  • My Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccc

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Villanelle Poetry – Country Drive

Jan 1

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Villanelle Poetry – Country Drive

While enjoying a drive in the country air
a very fast car past us and went ahead
his passion for fast cars gave us a scare

while taking the corner too fast, I swear
he braked, car rolled, ended up brain dead
while enjoying a drive in the country air

His car was built for comfort, beware
he needed to learn how to drive, I said
his passion for fast cars gave us a scare

fast driving is not important, take care
all his dreams ended on his death-bed
while enjoying a drive in the country air

that is all there is to say, except a prayer
so many tears for all his loved one to shed
his passion for fast cars give us a scare

now our memories of that drive in fresh air
always a memory living forever in our head
while enjoying a drive in the country air
his passion for fast cars gave us a scare.

Copyright © 2019 Elsie Hagley

Villanelle Poetry:

The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain.

The rhyme scheme is AbA’ abA’ abA’ abA’ abA’ abAA’, so there are only two rhymes that end all the lines.

In addition, the first line and third line, the refrains, are repeated four times each –

the first line appears at the end of stanzas 2 and 4 and as the second-to-last line in stanza 6.

The poem’s third line appears again at the end of stanzas 3, 5, and 6.

 

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