This was a campfire Nature Session about Eagles and hawks. As you can see the children gathered around the teacher to discover about raptor. Their curiosity was intense, and I was inspired by the event.

This poem is a Lyrical Virelai.
As I was researching the Virelai structures of French repeating poetry, I discovered that modern Virelais take on an aabb rhyme scheme, and a 5-5-2 meter. I then found that in the earliest times, they were often sung with a repeating refrain in between each stanza, with a rhyme scheme of:
A abb A abb A abb A (and so on, using only 2 rhymes).
The meter of the refrain wasn't identified, but I thought a 7 syllable line might work well with a 5-5-2 construct. So my meter is:
7 5-5-2 7 5-5-2 7 5-5-2 7.

This picture was taken by the author himself on August 28, 2015, at Lake Elmo Park. Researve.

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