Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Ottava Rima - Prayer for Spring

Ottava Rima

This is quiet simply a Sicilian sestet with a couplet. However, it has been found to be more popular than the Sicilian octave among most poets. It has no set meter and the rhyeme scheme would be: a.b.a.b.a.b.c.c

“Prayer for Spring”

Winter woes fade away
For the time is coming near
For spring to come I pray
Hear those birds, my dear?
Oh let today be the day
For another snowfall I so fear
Oh spring, please do call
How I dread another snowfall

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