A bird I spied up in the oak,
Shadows therein did give him cloak.
Trilling whistles did me engage,
O joy! Freedom from gilded cage.
I thrilled to watch you through my scope.
Your charming antics brought me hope.
Petulant warble as if onstage,
O joy! Freedom from gilded cage.
Bib, crown and nape of rufous hue,
With wings of deepest, dusky blue.
Who are you…little spirit sage?
O joy! Freedom from gilded cage.
Kyrielle
A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza consisting of 4 lines), and each quatrain contains a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the amount of stanzas a Kyrielle may have, but three is considered the accepted minimum.
Some popular rhyming schemes for a Kyrielle are: aabB, ccbB, ddbB, with B being the repeated line, or abaB, cbcB, dbdB.
Mixing up the rhyme scheme is possible for an unusual pattern of: axaZ, bxbZ, cxcZ, dxdZ, etc. with Z being the repeated line. The rhyme pattern is completely up to the poet.
Androgoth
/ January 5, 2012A lovely piece of poetry Gayle
you are on a roll with these fine
efforts, and I am enjoying your
uniqueness on every visit here :)
Have a delightful Friday Gayle :)
Androgoth XXx
Bodhirose
/ January 6, 2012Ah, thank you, my friend…I decided to try my hand at another poetry form today.
Enjoy your Friday too, Androgoth. :)
Sharmishtha
/ January 6, 2012amazing poem gayle. thanks for teaching the interesting form.
Bodhirose
/ January 7, 2012If you try it let me know. I’m glad you liked it.
dragonkatet
/ January 7, 2012O joy, indeed! I liked the poem, and thank you for showing me a new form! Was it very tough to write?
Bodhirose
/ January 8, 2012So glad you liked this. No, it wasn’t that hard…I’m so used to counting syllables anyway. If you try it, let me know.
dragonkatet
/ January 7, 2012P.S. Was it a bluebird? :)
Bodhirose
/ January 8, 2012You know there are blue birds of some sort around here but we don’t see them in our neighborhood. It was a pretend bird and I made up the colors per their syllable count! :)
lesliepaints
/ January 7, 2012Beautiful song! You captured this bird perfectly. I can see it.
Bodhirose
/ January 8, 2012Thanks, Leslie. I’m glad I described it so well! :)