~ structured in Terza Rima form ~ I fly again in dreams to nowhere land
To walk beneath the haze and all alone
On nothingness I wander far beyond...
I hope to feel contentment far from moan
To head right up my cup, my goal's complete
In peace and silence leaving wayward home
This life is null and void I found defeat
Bruised blue and gray, was I surrendering
In winter's cold away from summer heat
My newfound land there is no rendering
Of this and that, contented more at least
Hear me no cry, there's no abandoning
I wander through this island in the midst
Where I could walk along the water stream
Abounds with dreams far from realities
Whisper o'er the breeze, echoes like a scream
Blown with the wind, it swiftly fades away
Like a fallen leaf...like a shattered dream
Ye light o' men, this soul I ought to pray
On bended knees, I ask of thee, my Lord
Thy peace I long to shield me on my way
I've travelled far and long enough to find
This place upon the hollow of thy hand
Where mine eyes see our footprints on the sand
*Poem Of The Day, August 25, 2006
ECHOES OF MY SOUL Poetry Forum
*Masterpiece Award, August 22, 2006
The Poet Republic Poetry Forum
Terza Rima ("third rhyme")
It is a pattern created by Dante Alighieri for use in his 13th century masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. Earlier trifold patterns and lyric forms sung by Provencal troubadours undoubtedly influenced his writing. Other Italian poets, including Petrarch and Boccaccio, used the form. Its first use in English was by Geoffrey Chaucer in his "Complaint to His Lady." Milton, Byron and Shelley used it, as did Archibald MacLeish, W.H. Auden, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot and others.
It employs any number of 3-line stanzas and a final stanza of 1, 2, or 3 lines. Some poets combine the single final line with the previous 3-line stanza, making, in effect, a final stanza of four lines. The usual English line is iambic pentameter, though other consistent patterns are possible.
Terza rima uses chain rhyme, in which some relationship is established between rhymes in one stanza and the next. In terza rima, the middle line of the first stanza introduces the rhyme used in the first and third lines of the second stanza, and so on. The pattern thus runs aba, bcb, cdc, ded, efe....
Whether the final stanza consists of 1, 2 or 3 lines, all lines rhyme with the previous stanza's middle line. Sometimes they also rhyme with the first rhyme in the poem.
To mute the heavy rhyme scheme, a poet frequently uses enjambment and puts as much strength as possible elsewhere in the line. Alliteration, assonance and even parallel structures are used for the same purpose and help to spread the melody throughout the whole.
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