Goodbye Cruel World (Trijan Refrain)

by Jenni Marie   Aug 15, 2007


Saying hello to suicide
Can't cope any longer
Lost count of all the tears I've cried
Once thought I was stronger
Suicide knocks on my front door
Just can't take this pain anymore
Suicide knocks
Suicide knocks
Didn't think I could feel this low

Saying hello to suicide
Now just felt to much pain
Wanting only to go and hide
Feeling like I'm insane
Death is calling, he's at my house
I've become timid as a mouse
Death is calling
Death is calling
Knocking on the door to my house

Saying hello to suicide
Why do I feel this way
Tried everything, I've really tried
Now know, wont be okay
Death's come for me, can't take no more
No chance for me to learn and grow
Death's come for me
Death's come for me
Goodbye cruel world, it's time to go

*I am not suicidal. It's just a poem.*

The Trijan Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of three 9-line stanzas, for a total of 27 lines.
Line 1 is the same in all three stanzas, although a variation of the form is not to repeat the same line
at the beginning of each stanza. In other words, the beginning line of each stanza can be different.
The first four syllables of line 5 in each stanza are repeated as the double-refrain for lines 7 and 8.
The Trijan Refrain is a rhyming poem with a set meter and rhyme scheme as follows:

Rhyme scheme: a/b/a/b/c/c/d,d refrain of first 4 words of line five /c

Meter: 8/6/8/6/8/8/4,4 refrain/8

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