Who Will You Be Today (Rispetto)

The morning light brings dread for me.
Waiting, who will you embody?
Different people, neither free,
living within the same body.

Will you be the man who I love,
kind, considerate, and beloved.
Or will you be the man I gauge,
angry, evil and full of rage.

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A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry, is a complete poem of two rhyme quatrains with strict meter. The meter is usually iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd. A Heroic Rispetto is written in Iambic pentameter, usually featuring the same rhyme scheme.
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