Those Tender Years

by damommy

Rememb’ring when my sons were small,
I love to think back on the time
the world was home, that's all they knew,
those tender years they were all mine.

Then school days came and off they went.
I love to think back on the time
before the days away they spent,
those tender years they were all mine.

Time flew so fast and they were grown.
I love to think back on the time
before they’d left the nest and flown,
those tender years they were all mine.

Were one for three and three for one.
I love to think back on the time
before their growing days were done,
those tender years they were all mine.

They never changed much from those days.
I love to think back on the time,
but they still have those loving ways,
these later years, they’re still all mine.

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I used some near rhyme, and also modified the last stanza.

Description: This is a Kyrielle with two rhyming refrains in the second and fourth lines of each stanza. It has octosyllabic lines. French origin.

Schematic: aB1aB2 cB1cB2 dB1dB2 eB1eB2 fB1fB2, etc.

Rhythm/Stanza Length: 4

Double Refrain Kyrielle is an American invented variation of the Kyrielle found at Poetry Base attributed to the Dread Poet Roberts. As the name implies it adds a 2nd refrain.
- stanzaic, any number of quatrains is written at the discretion of the poet.
- syllabic, each line is 8 syllables. In English it is often written in iambic tetrameter.
- written with 2 refrains.
- rhymed, aB1aB2 cB1cB2 dB1dB2 etc., B1 and B2 are

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Double Refrain Kyrielle

Those Tender Years

by damommy

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