This picture was taken by my daughter, Aisha. She sent it to me saying, "I thought I saw Jesus coming today." That inspired my poem. My poetic description of the event known as the Rapture.

This poem is a Decannelle.
The Decannelle is:
1. A Decastich (or Decatain), a poem in 10 lines.

2. Metered in trochaic tetrameter with alternating 8-7-8-7-8-7-8-7-8-7 syllables causing the odd numbered lines to end with feminine end words, and the even lines having two end rhymes (a, and b).

3. Rhymed. The rhyme scheme is:
xaxaxaxbxb (with the x being the unrhymed line).
Sort of a hop-scotch rhyming pattern of every other line.

Trochaic - a line made up of trochees. The trochaic line is the opposite of iambic. In a two syllable metered foot, the hard accent is on the first syllable rather than the second.

Tetrameter - a poetic line of 4 metered feet. Each foot contains 2 syllables. So tetrameter contains 8 syllables per line.

Trochaic Tetrameter - where the stressed syllables (S) is first and the unstressed syllable (U) is second, for 4 meteric feet. S-U, S-U, S-U, S-U. They went rowing down the river

Iambic Tetrameter - where the stressed syllables (S) is second and the unstressed syllable (U) is first, for 4 meteric feet. U-S, U-S, U-S, U-S.
He said, "To be, or not to be."

This photograph is part of the author's family album.

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