Author Notes
It seems to happen almost overnight. One day the trees are bare and the grass looks yellow and dead. Then it rains, and boom, the grass is green and the leaves are out. What a difference. I tried to capture that here. I chose this photo to show just how green the grass was in the woods, leaves on background trees, and buds on bushes.
This poem is a Triolet.
A Triolet is a French repeating poem of only eight lines, and often all lines are in iambic tetrameter. It contains only 2 rhymes, with a rhyme scheme of:
ABaAabAB.
The fourth and seventh lines are the same exact line as the first (see capital As). The eighth line is the same exact line as the second (see capital Bs). Because five of the eight lines repeat, this is one of the easiest French formats to create, yet when the repeated lines are chosen well, it creates a lovely poem.
This photograph was taken by the author himself on May 1, 2016.
|
