Exceptional A Pantoum for the Pic This Challenge The Winter of My Heart by June Sargent

I feel the grey within my heart A biting unrelenting chill Through all the years we've been apart Life feels the same though - time stood still A biting unrelenting chill As snow fell rapidly that day Life feels the same though - time stood still My sorrow keeps the sun away As snow fell rapidly that day I knew your ship would not return My sorrow keeps the sun away For you my soul will always yearn I knew your ship would not return Through all the years we've been apart For you my soul will always yearn I feel the grey within my heart Recognized Author Notes he pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA. The design is simple: Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 (repeat of line 2) Line 6 Line 7 (repeat of line 4) Line 8 Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanzathen repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.

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