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 |  My entries for the WDC Survivor Game |
Prompt: Your challenge is to write a poem with at least ten lines, where every line has the same number of 'beats'. (Essentially, the same number of syllables.) Nothing Left ~A Villanelle~ I search my empty heart today For rays of faded love’s lost trace Adieu is all there’s left to say Life scented once with love's bouquet on bitter wind blows from this place I search my empty heart today Our story penned in lower case My passion null in your embrace Adieu is all there’s left to say With ardor dwindled, flit away Frustration threatens fall from grace I search my empty heart today We danced the waltz in love’s ballet Lambasted silence, poker face Adieu is all there’s left to say A soul insists, can't disobey It needs fresh air and open space I search my empty heart today Adieu is all there’s left to say A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa. The first and the third lines in the first stanza repeat in alternating order throughout the poem as lines three in the remaining stanzas, and they appear together in the closing couplet (last two lines). In addition to these traditional guidelines, this Villanelle is written in iambic tetrameter, meaning there are four metric feet (or exactly eight syllables) per line. |
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