The 'One Man' Show {Terzanelle}

Eternity is his final destination
Promenading to a song sung within his head
Eternity is his final destination
Across the mighty world is where he may tread.
Burning within his heart, within his soul - fire
Promenading to a song sung within his head
Declaring eternity, 'Be my desire!'
A magical treasure sings deep within his thoughts
Burning within his heart, within his soul - fire
As the dances surround him singing secret plots.
A figure shallow snickering with hidden truths
A magical treasure sings deep within his heart
Dangling circles behind him - his shattered youth
The music is his home from which shall never part
A figure shallow snickering with hidden truths
The 'One Man' show excitedly begins to start
Eternity is his final destination
The music is his home from which shall never part
Eternity is his final destination

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The Terzanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets 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 a 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 is 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
16. f
17. A or F
18. F or A
19. A

Each line of the poem should be the same metrical length.