Only Silence Fill His Night: A VIllanelle

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"Only Silence FIll His NIght"

 

Only silence fill his night
Heart frozen by the cold
His world is ruined by blight

To darkness he lost his sight
His soul is about to fold
Only silence fill his night

The moon's lovely and bright
But his Desires' not sold
His world is ruined by blight

Stars hanging like kites
In his childhood he was told
Only silence fill his night

She screamed with all his might
And wanted to act tough and bold
His world is ruined by blight

His grip is firm and tight
Despite the fact that he is old
Now only silence fill his night
And his world is ruined by blight

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What is a Villanelle?

 

A villanelle (also known as villanesque) is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example of a fixed verse form. The word derives from Latin, then Italian, and is related to the initial subject of the form being the pastoral.