summer rain (rondeau)

within the rain, I heard your name
inhaled your earth scent, as it came
I am bereft without you near
my heart is full, of aching tears
. . .I'll drown, in this, relentless pain

I'm wandering this world insane
retracing you, inside my brain
where are you. . . is that you near
. . .within the rain

on bended knee, to you I came
'oh shower me a sweet refrain'
if I can never hold you here,
perhaps, I'll ever keep you near,
savouring my summer's pain
. . .within the rain

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Mr. Darcy
© 2018

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A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short - a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).