Here is another sample of what I was forced to do during my freshman year. Thank you, Sister.
No, really, thanks! I've received a lot of praise for this one!
'Til All Are One
We'll fight until that glorious day
That day will come, though not in sight
"'Til all are one," and none will stray
The dark will pass, come what may
One day, we'll be saved by the light
We'll fight until that glorious day
Though lives shall fade to garish gray
Still we will conquer evil's might
"'Til all are one," and none will stray
He has proclaimed; we must obey
We'll conquer ill by force of right
We'll fight until that glorious day
When down his arms foul sin will lay
Then peace will last, to our delight
"'Til all are one," and none will stray
With ev'ry breath, for this we pray:
To see the end of dark, cold night
We'll fight until that glorious day
"'Til all are one," and none will stray
This is an unmetered villanelle. (Note the rhyme scheme and repeated lines? That's how a villanelle works.)
This poem is about the death of Optimus Prime in The Transformers: The Movie. After the Battle for Autobot City, Optimus Prime was revealed to be fatally wounded. As he died, he spoke the words "Until the day, 'til all are one," and promised that the day would come when the next Prime would "light [their] darkest hour." This poem was written both as a grievance to the (original) death of Optimus Prime and to rejoice in the defeat of the Decepticons that had partially come to pass, and was yet to come.