A collection of poems for The National Poetry Month 2020.
All in different forms. Each a learning experience.
🏆 First place in Azurite Awards (Moonstone - Poetry)
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The storm clouds gather, thick and gray, Darkening the skies in the day, And the wild wind makes the trees sway. Slashing and flashing, lightning dance, Battering the clouds, thunder rumbles, The rains bring out earthly fragrance, A show that delights and humbles.
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Today's form is the Saraband, a septet.
This septet form is taken from the musical dance form which has an alternate meter of: 3 - 4, and what could be more fitting than having a poem derived from a dance. The original Saraband was a dance of Asian origin introduced into Spain in the 16th century and later to the courts of France and Italy.
The meter follows the dance with two stanzas. The first one of 3 lines, and the second of 4 lines.
The rhyme scheme is; a. x. a.....b. c. b. c. etc.
In the Tercet all three lines may rhyme, in the French version, only lines one and three rhyme. The Quatrain can vary from the Spanish; b. c. b. c. French; b. b. c. c. or Italian; b. c. c. b., and it is not uncommon to mix Quatrains, i.e. Spanish with French or Italian when writing long poems.
For the purist each line comprises of Eight (8) syllables but there are examples of Iambic and Trochaic pentameter also.
