January 27, 2014

Terzanelle...


Heavenly Peace

A gentle feeling comes within
His light shines brightly on my soul
A gentle feeling comes within

Prayer and praise is my whispered goal
Sweet dreams I sleep safely all night
His light shines brightly on my soul

To please Him is my earthly flight
His love protects me all day long
Sweet dreams I sleep safely all night

Without my Father lost and gone
He builds me up and shows me way
His love protects me all day long

Questions of life is not my tray
For His calm brings me inner peace
He builds me up and shows me way

Joy comes to soul as all fears cease
A gentle feeling comes within
For His calm brings me inner peace
A gentle feeling comes within

- Rhoda Galgiani
  
The Terzanelle Poetry Form is a combination of the Villanelle and the Terza Rima forms - It is a 19-line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets/tercets plus a concluding quatrain in which the first and third lines of the first triplet appear as refrains - The middle line of each triplet is repeated, reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet with the exception of the center line of the next-to-the-last stanza which appears in the quatrain - The rhyme and refrain scheme for the triplets are as follows: 1.A 2.B 3.A 4.b 5.C 6.B 7.c 8.D 9.C 10.d 11.E 12.D 13.e 14.F 15.E - Ending Type 1: 16.f 17.A 18.F 19.A - Ending Type 2: 16.f 17.F 18.A 19.A...rg