Strangled Shadows [Trijan Refrain]

The night is dark and winds blow cold,
The pale moon is shining -
Feeling like a million years old
As my heart stopped beating
And still I sleep, lonesome at night
Severed from dreams of divine light
And still I sleep
And still I sleep
Embraced by my nightmares and blight...

The night is dark and winds blow cold,
Feeling like I'm falling -
Ropes too fragile to grab hold;
Broken and decaying.
And then I weep for Death's delight,
Overwhelmed by his cruel might
And then I weep
And then I weep
No one to help me is in sight...

The night is dark and winds blow cold
As I'm barely crawling
Covered in this decadent gold -
Slowly inside dying
And I can't sleep with these walls of white,
Strangled shadows making me fright
And I can't sleep
And I can't sleep
See my strangled shadow tonight...

© My Decadent
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The Trijan Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of three 9-line stanzas, for a total of 27 lines.
Line 1 is the same in all three stanzas, although a variation of the form is not to repeat the same line
at the beginning of each stanza. In other words, the beginning line of each stanza can be different.
The first four syllables of line 5 in each stanza are repeated as the double-refrain for lines 7 and 8.
The Trijan Refrain is a rhyming poem with a set meter and rhyme scheme as follows:

Rhyme scheme: a/b/a/b/c/c/d,d refrain of first 4 words of line five /c

Meter: 8/6/8/6/8/8/4,4 refrain/8