So I was reading some poetry and found a little poem called, "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet. As a villanelle it is comprised of 19 lines and six stanzas; the first of which the last line is repeated at the end of all the other stanzas. The first line of the first stanza is repeated along with the last one at the very end of the poem in the six stanzas or couplet. Generally in the poem above, it had five feet for the first line and five and a half for the second and five again for the third. So it would look like this syllable wise with u being unstressed and / being stressed.
u/|u/|u/|u/|u/|
u/|u/|u/|u/|u/|u|
u/|u/|u/|u/|u/|
I wanted to write a villanelle and so I chose our very own Mephisto Pheles or Mephistopheles or Samael—he has far too many names, our clown does—to write about.
I hope you enjoy it.
Reaper, Reaper
Peonies, dying petals of ash and tears
Colors bright in the rise of night
King of Flowers, decayed to the core
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Cloth-strewn garden torn from the root, shame rendered
Truths dyed with pearl-tainted blood. Reaped sorrow
King of Flowers, decayed to the core
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Painted smile of Joy? Dripping poison
From pointed teeth; halted march, slowed Hands freeze
King of Flowers, decayed to the core
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Stagnated, Time-stopped era, royal pyre
Burn in infamy, ruined Father, Amen
King of Flowers, decayed to the core
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Fili Dei miserete nobis
Tiered Babel of tears, Jerusalem fell
King of Flowers, decayed to the core
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Give us thinly-veiled honor, Father
Till blood runs down Hollow'd walls and souls soar
Peonies, dying petals of ash and tears
King of Flowers, decayed to the core
'Nough said.
Tarry a while. Thou art so fair. ~ Wild-Tama