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Newest poetic challenge

The latest poetic challnege from Cindy...for anyone to take up.......Join the growing group of people wanting to learn and grow as poets
Villanelle
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 couplet (last two lines).


Please viti this link to see an example of the form and to use to help show you are doing it right yourself
Example: http://allpoetry.com/poem/2641054


Here's a rhyming tool: http://www.rhymezone.com/
Use this to help fi you get stuck with your rhymes ( I will be using it lol, being that I am a hopeless rhymer )

#####-----Remember to keep your syllable counts the same or very close in rhyming lines.

Good luck with this challenge and please pop the link into the comments here or send it to me, so I can have a look as soon as it's ready




Cindy

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