One Day She Hopes (Quatern)

One day she hopes her dreams come true,
Not only one but quite a few.
For she has went and made a plan,
She will do it, she knows she can.

While she may stop to think it through,
One day she hopes her dreams come true.
All the struggles that she will face,
Will take her to that awesome place.

She's bestowed with such ambition,
How she longs for recognition.
One day she hopes her dreams come true,
She's got a lot of things to do.

The ends are worth the means she'll see,
When she fulfills her destiny.
Then she will start with something new,
One day she hopes her dreams come true.

Copyright©2006 Rachel Barnett

A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme scheme.