Exceptional A Rondeau for Potlatch Summer Rain by damommy Please read author's notes.

Raindrops are dribbling off the eaves by weaving paths through fallen leaves. Their drip, drip, drip does mesmerize me watching as they vaporize and vanish in the fog like thieves.   Then suddenly the storm reprieves, the trees no longer sway in heaves, the heavy rainfall veils the skies. No dribbling off the eaves.   Now water forms some silv’ry sleeves, runs ‘cross the ground.  A channel cleaves two ways to flow with valiant tries until the storm meets its demise. Pine needles lay in sodden sheaves. No dribbling off the eaves. Recognized Author Notes Instructions said to take a phrase from the first line. I chose the last half of the first line as my repeating phrase. A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short - a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).

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