When the moon on a winter night's streaming
on a world wrapped in blankets of snow,
when its beams set each crystal to gleaming
and each ice-covered branch is aglow,
it is then I awake from my dreaming
to partake of this mystical show.
When the snow in the wind starts aswirling
till the sky is a flurry of white,
when the stars become lost in the whirling
and the trees soon are hid from my sight,
it is then back in bed I'll be curling
to keep warm for the rest of the night.
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Author Notes
The syllable count in each quatrain is 10/9/10/9/10/9.
Unlike much of my poetry, which is written in iambic meter, this poem employs anapestic feet. This means the accenting is dadaDUM dadaDUM dadaDUM with an extra da/unaccented/feminine syllable at the end of the 10 syllable lines.
so the lines go:
dadaDUM dadaDUM dadaDUM da
dadaDUM dadaDUM dadaDUM
dadaDUM dadaDUM dadaDUM da..... and so on.
And Valerie, you now have my permission to laugh :-)
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