Sharp-fanged beasts in the middle of the night
The moment dark envelopes the pale sky
Shadows seen creeping, lurking the twilight
On a midnight blue, waiting for its prey
The moment dark envelopes the pale sky
In midnight madness, evil has its way
On a midnight blue, waiting for its prey
Luring innocents, hell's a step away
In midnight madness, evil has its way
A short taste of heaven, enticing stare
Luring innocents, hell's a step away
Vigilance! do not be caught unaware!
A short taste of heaven, enticing stare
Sharp-fanged beasts in the middle of the night
Vigilance! do not be caught unaware!
Shadows seen creeping, lurking in twilight
**(a Rondelet)
no hope in dope
you're walking like a living dead
no hope in dope
you don't escape reality
those dreams you've had all gone wasted
life in drugs is your near'r deathbed
no hope in dope
***(a Rondeau)
The evil we scare that men do
In an appointed midnight blue
Victims trapped from the sweetest bait
Innocent lives suffered ill fate
Dreams they lived could never come true
Heartless souls, to evil they're glued
In madness, no one has a clue
In ardent pray'r to keep the faith
The evil we scare that men do
Watchers of the night,' can't cling to
Law enforcers-law breakers too
Criminals like vampires at night
Even us, in choosing unright
Left and right, madly as weirdo
The evil we scare that men do
Midnight Madness is a poem in trilogy about the perils of the night, structured in pantoum, rondelet and rondeau.
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Some Helpful Info:
*A Pantoum is a french verse form of four (4) quatrains that repeats entire lines in a strict pattern, 1234, 2546, 5768, 7183
A Malaysian Pantoum, on the other hand is a poetic form of verses in french and english, somehow related but with series of rhymes abab, bcbc, cdcd, and the first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain
Note: My pantoum here was not necessarily 4 quatrains of tetrameters. I experimented on pentameters(10-syllable-line verses)to put some variation
to the accustomed form. Hope I did it fine, for a change.
**The Rondelet is a brief French form of poetry. It consists of one stanza, made up of seven lines. It contains a refrain, a strict rhyme scheme and a distinct meter pattern.
The word is from the diminutive of rondel, meaning round. This is the basic structure:
Line 1 :: A -- four syllables
Line 2 :: b -- eight syllables
Line 3 :: A -- repeat of line one
Line 4 :: a -- eight syllables
Line 5 :: b -- eight syllables
Line 6 :: b -- eight syllables
Line 7 :: A -- repeat of line one
The refrained lines should contain the same words, however - substitution or different use of punctuation on the lines has been common.
***The Rondeau consists of three stanzas, a quintet (5 lines), a quatrain (4 lines) and a sestet (6 lines).
The first phrase of the first line usually sets the refrain (R), but sometimes the refrain can be
the whole of the first line. The structure is:
line 1 - a (R)(normally the first phrase is the refrain)
line 2 - a
line 3 - b
line 4 - b
line 5 - a
line 6 - a
line 7 - a
line 8 - b
line 9 - R
line 10 - a
line 11 - a
line 12 - b
line 13 - b
line 14 - a
line 15 - R
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