The botanical name for the Lilac is Syringa. Actually Lilac is the French name for this fragrant, early spring bloomer, that flowers for only a couple of weeks, after which it provides a dense green bush. I have provided here the Greek legend of the Lilac. Pan was a Satyr and Syringa was a beautiful Woods Nymph. The wood of the lilac bush actually can be made into a flute, in the spring while the sap is running strong. The bark can be made to slip off the stem, the wood notched, and then the bark holed and slipped back on.

This poem is a Tory Hexatet.
This is a sonnet form created by Victoria Sutton aka PassionsPromise and named by Larry Eberhart, aka Lawrencealot.

It consists of an Octet + couplet + quatrain, with a rhyme scheme of:

ababcdcd ee ffgg.

The format features the first eight lines (the Octet) in 12 syllable iambic hexameter, but the rhyming couplet holds to eight syllables (iambic tetrameter), located at line 9, rather than at the end. The last four lines of the closing quatrain revert back to 12 syllables. So the poem retains the signature total 14 lines of a Sonnet.
The couplet in the center provides the "changing point", or volta. The shorter meter provides a visual, as well as oral impact. Thus, It makes a direct statement and could be read by itself.

This photograph was taken by the Author himself on May 16, 2016 at Hamlin Park in St. Paul Park, Minnesota.

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