Happy Anniversary (Rondeau Redouble)

by Ş∂ņďħy∂   Jul 9, 2004


Dream 6

His heart kept pounding in that stormy night
Strange feelings forcefully ran through his memory
The unanswered door knocks caused to incite
His thoughts fell into strong vagary

He opened the door with a spare key, in a flurry
And realized, the house was drenched in twilight
He found one room had traits of candle's glimmery
His heart kept pounding in that stormy night

Calling her name he loomed up to the fainted light
The revelation in front invigorated the weary
The lit candles, queued to a room, led to excite
Strange feelings forcefully ran through his memory

The fragrance from the room pinched his passion fiery
And the fragrance of her love drowned him in delight
He knocked on the door of the bedroom quite chary
The unanswered door knocks caused to incite

He opened the door, which was left unlatched, quite
She glow like a moon with the stars all imaginary
Waiting on the bed, shining with all that candlelight
His thoughts fell into strong vagary

She gave him a card and kissed him 'Happy anniversary'
He couldn't stop kissing her lips and hugging her tight
They burnt like the candles, till the flame reached expiry
Nothing stopped them making love the entire night
His heart kept pounding.

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The Rondeau Redouble
The rondeau redouble is the French translation of a double rondeau. Consisting of 25 lines, it features a four-line refrain, which forms the first quatrain. These four lines are then used successively as the last lines of the following four quatrains. The sixth and final stanza is a quatrain, which contains no repetition of previous lines; it does, however, include a ?tail that is the beginning clause or phrase from line one.
A quatrain can be AB-AB or ABBA or AA-BB.

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  • 19 years ago

    by N J Thornton

    I really liked this poem. It is very different to the normal anniversary poems. You managed to describe a moment in so much detail. I'm a big fan of the Rondeau, although i have never (before now) read a Rondeau Redouble. I really don't understand why this has a low rating. It may be that the advanced wording you used may have thrown people off. But i liked it.
    In the last stanza you say "Nothing did stop them make love" and i'm not sure this makes sense. I was thinking maybe you meant "Nothing did stop them making love".
    Great work. Keep writing.

  • 19 years ago

    by Megha

    again.....all i can say is brilliant....

  • 19 years ago

    by Sierra Rae

    It's really cool that you write in all these different forms of poetry (or would it be called styles???) oh well...the point is they are all good and I am learning from them!! Keep it up girl!!

  • 19 years ago

    by julie

    Excellent poem, keep up the good work! julie -xx-

  • Thanks everybody.. for all the comments...For me it is worth hunderds of votes. But i really felt bad when that onner hit this same poem, twice. the rating fell from 5.0/6 to 4.0/8.... :(

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