Orvillette Poetry - New Springtime Breeze
NEW SPRINGTIME BREEZE
AN
ORVILLETTE
POEM
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The breath of a new springtime breeze,
the fresh air enticing birdsong,
growth in hedgerows, as yet tease.
Oft concealing, but not for long
The breath of a new springtime breeze.
New life in all manner of forms.
Now rid of that wintertime freeze
Oft concealing, now life informs.
The breath of a new springtime breeze.
Chicks fledging, spring lambs bleating, call!
Cherry blossom, early bees' please,
oft concealing, many a gall.
The breath of a new springtime breeze,
now done, summer's now moved in, fun!
Life both old and new, play and tease,
oft concealing themselves from sun.
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• The Orvillette is an invented verse form created by Virginia Noble as a tribute to her son, Orville, a disabled World War II paratrooper.
The Orvillette is:
• a verse form, written in 4 quatrains, a poem in 16 lines.
• metered, iambic tetrameter.
• composed with a refrain and a rentrament. L1 is repeated as L1 in each quatrain. The first 3 syllables of L4 are repeated as the first 3 syllables of L4 in each quatrain.
• rhymed, Raba Rcbc Rdbd Rebe. L3 of each stanza carries a linking rhyme between stanzas.
Copyright © Mick Talbot | Year Posted 2018
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