My City at Night
(A Rondeau Poem)
My city at night shines like a jewel
That sparkles and glows as a general rule.
Its bridges and buildings stream with light
That cast images off the river at night,
As a reflecting pool.
Like a blithering fool,
I think it looks cool,
When I observe the sight
My city at night.
The glow that shows in each vestibule,
That gleams and beams form each edifice spicule
Adds its glimmer to the evening bright,
While the water-shed ribbons of gold delight
Blend together so well,
My city at night.
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Author Notes
The City of St. Paul, Minnesota at night. The river in the foreground with the Highway lights reflected on the Mississippi River. The First National Bank building is shown with the Large 1 lit up.
Spicule - A spike or staff, as on tops of buildings. Spikes of lighted gas that spew from the sun, also.
This poem is a Rondeau.
A Rondeau is a fixed form of poetry. It is often used in light or witty poems. It often has fifteen octo - or decasyllabic lines with three stanzas. It usually only has two rhymes (a & b) used in the poem. A word or words from the first part of the first line are used as a refrain ending the second and third stanzas.
The rhyme scheme, then, is;
aabba aabR aabbaR.
The format can carry any type of meter or syllable count, as long as it follows a fixed pattern. For this poem, I chose a syllable count of:
9/11/9/11/6 6/5/6/5 9/11/9/11/6/5
This night photograph was taken by the author himself.
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