This is an image that I captured of a statue in the Como Park Conservatory Fern Room, in St. Paul Minnesota. It is a statue upon a fountain in a large opening in the middle of the room. I went out and shot this through the ferns that surround the room. I think it come out lovely. It inspired this poem.

Eurydice is a Greek goddess.She was the sister of Apollo. Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, Aristaeus saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a viper, was bitten, and died instantly. Orpheus tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music. She was said to have a beautiful singing voice.

This poem is a Tirell Sonnet.
A Tirrell Sonnet was created by Robert Tirrell Leonard, a poet from Woburn, MA. who is also a politician and author of several poetry collections.
The Tirrell Sonnet (an American model), is quite different and has a unique feel to it. It starts with a couplet followed by a Tercet, followed by a quatrain, adding the turn with a following Tercet and then reversing the order of the repeated couplet as a sort of refrain.
So it is: Couplet + Tercet + Quatrain + Tercet + reversed Couplet.
It features only 3 rhymes (a,b,and c). It is written in iambic pentameter.
This can create an introspective feel to the whole poem.
The rhyme scheme is:
A1, A2 - b,c,b - c,b,b,c - b,c,b - A2, A1,
where the capital letters indicate the repeated verses and the numbers provide identification.

In this one, I did resort to some near rhymes.

This photograph was taken by the author himself on March 15, 2012.

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