This photograph that I took, epitomizes the essence of autumn, with colored leaves on trees and littering the path. I framed it somewhat between two trees, and captured the natural archway's shadow, as well as the sunshine beyond. These elements I tried to capture within the lines of this poem.

This poem is a Gra Reformatta.
The Gra Reformata, created by Michael King, is based upon the Villanelle form. It is a form with repeating refrains integrated throughout the poem. It utilizes Tercets and Couplets for a total of 10 Stanzas.
Following the basic setting of the Villanelle, the Gra Reformata inserts a Couplet between each Tercet. This Couplet can be either rhymed within the structure of the rest of the poem, or in free verse, but always in iambic pentameter.
So there are the usual five Tercets followed by the closing Quatrain of the Villianelle, with four Couplets interspersed between.

This gives the following Format:
Stanza 1: A1-b-A2
Stanza 2: c - c
Stanza 3: a-b-A1
Stanza 4: d - d
Stanza 5: a-b-A2
Stanza 6: e - e
Stanza 7: a-b-A1
Stanza 8: f - f
Stanza 9: a-b-A2
Stanza 10: a-b-A1-A2,
For a total of 10 stanzas, where A1 and A2 are the repeated lines from the first Tercet.
Personally, I feel the addition of the Couplets, somewhat washes out the integration of the B rhyme within the Tercets that the Villanelle captures. Rhyming the Couplets helps, but, I feel, makes the stanzaic transitions somewhat jerky. Unrhymed couplets would likely be worse. However, holding the Couplets to a constant C rhyme might work better.

This photograph was taken by the author himself on October 23, 2017.

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