View the events of night
Calls of coyotes meet the sky
Fall of prey tonight
Leafs block the light
Believe that love shall prevail
Death hiding in the night
Breath held 'til end of tale
A Lento consists of two quatrains with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb, defe as the second and fourth lines of each stanza must rhyme. To take it a step further, but not required, try rhyming the first and third lines as well as the second and fourth lines of each stanza in this rhyming pattern: abab, cdcd. The fun part of this poem is that as all the FIRST words of each verse should rhyme. There is no fixed syllable structure to the Lento, but keeping a good, flowing rhythm is recommended.
13 comments:
Good job. :) Hug B
Wonderful poem and a great challenge. Lovely image! Happy Monday, enjoy your new week!
An enjoyable Monday morning read Gail, thank you.
Your words echo the pictures very well.
Do hope you have a good week ... hopefully a little rain with some sun and not too hot!
Take Care
All the best Jan
A wonderful post. Happy Monday!
Nice poem, had not heard this being described as such.
Excellent, and it makes your words sing from line to line. I like this style.
Very nice.
First of all, beautiful poem and then to master a form on top of it...I applaud you.
I think you did a good job with this, Gail. :-)
Another . . . Good Job!
you did an excellent job using the lento Gail ... the poem flowed well and you chose a fantastic topic ... one of my favourites! Thanks for joining us, Bastet
you have now HURT MY BRAIN, trying to just read the Lento and quatrains etc etc fried my circuits. I like the poem or Lento what ever it is called but will eave you to the writing there of.... you are talented in your writing
You are doing great with these forms. It's good practice, isn't it? I should do d'Verse. I really should.
Do you know what's happened to Brian? I never see him posting any more. I miss him.
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