Repetition Poems | Examples of Repetition Poetry

To feel melancholy.. To hear the rain on my roof On this soft mellow day The grey sky is the color of a horse hoof Oh the colorless grey To feel melancholy.. To unwrap the border separating The sour yet mouthwatering Orb of...Read More

refrain begins and ends, requires fifteen lines found, rhyme scheme is uneven, ...Read More

Stolen moments... That's what we share. Stolen moments.... Show how we care. Stolen moments.... In a small time frame. Stolen moments.... Too wild to tame. Stolen moments.... From Heaven above. Stolen moments.... To make sweet love. Stolen moments.... Lying still in...Read More

Villanelles The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain. Villanelle: The Divide by Michael R. Burch The sea was not salt the first tide... was man born to sorrow that first day, with the...Read More

Rondels, Roundels and Rondeaux These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains. Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty") by Geoffrey Chaucer loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch Your eyes slay me suddenly; their beauty I cannot...Read More

There's no appealing the sentence - with our virus destroyer. There's no appealing the sentence - I checked with our lawyer. There's no appealing the sentence - to this prison-like experience. When my alarm goes off it's ground-hog...Read More

This dirty room. With dust it consumes. Must lingers it's womb. This dirty room. This filthy floor Follow to one open door Though fiends always want more This filthy floor The light it exposes Brings knowledge and gnosis No where to hide So stand...Read More

Crumbling I say our country is crumbling A president that don't have self confidence we ain't want that at all A so call vice president with no dignity Pulling the strings like a puppet master While being another mans lapdog...Read More

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Everything you said, Was conjuring up the dead. The countless sleepless nights; Scenes running through my head, Haunted by the dead....Read More

At first I didn't notice Then at once it hit me These timers they were everywhere And all at once were ticking Now there is no ignoring This ticking now my only focus Driving me to think about How I wished I...Read More

Hickory dickory dock, the mouse got an electric shock Thought he would die but only his ears interlocked Could hear himself think His life on the brink Surgeon said, “try giving your head a good bop” ...Read More

Right to refuse? Do I have the right to refuse? To a child who's willing to learn Every ounce of knowledge old and new And remain a learner through and through Do I have the right to refuse? To offer help...Read More

The orders come in, as does the stress, sometimes the phone still rings off the hook, They give us a quota every day and the boss man will come by and look. I feel my heart-rate staring to rise, and...Read More

We are now seeing the ill managed swell, the reality of our pompous arrogant form of life. Clouds bring rain but they don’t bring hell. But a hell resides in the air tonight. Underestimated because we think...Read More