I wrote this poem about a soul going to heaven. The flight of an eagle symbolized that for me here. Then recent death of my wife's mother inspired the verse.

This poem is a Catena Rondo.
Catena Rondo is a stanzaic form created by 20th century Canadian educator, author and poet, Robin Skelton that uses interlinked repeating lines. The form lends itself to a longer poem because of the repetition of lines. Written in any number of 3 or more quatrains made up of 2 rhymed lines enveloping a rhymed couplet (enveloping rhyme). The second line of each stanza then becomes a link to the next stanza by becoming the first line of that stanza.
Meter is at the discretion of the poet. The verses are rhymed.
The rhyme scheme is:
ABbA BCcb CDdc DEed etc ...
until the enveloped couplet of the penultimate (second to last) quatrain repeats Line1 of the poem as line 2, thereby bringing the final quatrain back to the original scheme of the 1st quatrain ABbA.
So,in this scenario, the only line of the last stanza that could be original is Line 3 since Line 1, Line 2 and Line 4 are repetitions of the same lines of the first stanza.

The photograph was taken by the author in October, 2014.

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