Michael Edwards

WITHIN

 

 

A form of my own: the Edreflect and the rules are as follows:  it comprises of a single six line stanza with eight syllables in each line (octosyllabic)  and with a rhyme pattern of ABCCBA. In other words the first and last lines rhyme (A), the second and fifth lines rhyme (B) and the middle two lines rhyme(C), The following is one of my poems written in that form:   

 

WITHIN

 

But little modified by time

and planted there by ancient hand

the wrinkled trunks of oak and yew

still etched with vows when love was new

in leprous isolation stand

behind the walls where church bells chime.