A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa.
The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order throughout the poem, and appear together in the last two lines.
The brave young captain of a sinking ship
Planted on deck, facing the storm
Stands and waits with a strong hand-gripThe voyage he took, this long trip
Was meant to speak of the fame of
The brave young a captain of a sinking shipAdventure awaited, unaware the black rip
Facing instead a storm of such power, he
Sits and waits with a strong hand-grip
Working through terror sailors slide and slip
While he frets and ponders their doom
The brave young captain of a sinking ship
The seas never releasing her gripThe mast cracked and buckled, still he
Sits and waits with a strong hand-grip
The lightening flashes, cracking like a whip
The seas have taken the Merchant so
The brave young captain of a sinking shipSits and waits with a strong hand-grip
1 comment:
Oooo....I like this one. Very well done. And kudos on trying different types of poetry.
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