Simply Spellbound
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Quatern
A Quatern is a sixteen-line French form composed of four quatrains. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, the third line of stanza three, and the fourth line of stanza four. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme scheme. line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 line 5 line 6 (line 1) line 7 line 8 line 9 line 10 line 11 (line 1) line 12 line 13 line 14 line 15 line 16 (line 1)
Succumbing to the night's allure,
I greet the Goddess of the moon.
And Luna rises, all aglow,
elegant lady of the night.
Dusk blurs the lines of light and dark,
succumbing to the night's allure.
And a sinking scarlet sun slips
slowly over the horizon.
Crimson chars the edge of the Earth
as shifting shadows swiftly merge.
Succumbing to the night's allure,
an owl announces dusk's approach.
Diamond studded ebony
descends like a velvet curtain.
And I am left simply spellbound,
succumbing to the night's allure.
05/10/2022
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2022
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