Boxing the Stars [Villonnet]

I made myself a promise just last night,
That today I would try something new,
And my chances are a hundred to one,
But the stars have never shone so bright.

I`ve gotta do this, gotta get it just right,
So I hold a wooden heart inside my hands,
Up and ready to catch a falling star, because --
I made myself a promise just last night.

It got a little tricky, at dawn`s early light,
But I held my head high, vowed to not give up,
The sky was turning pink, contrasting the black,
But the stars have never shone so bright.

I made myself a promise just last night,
That I would show you your beauty today,
But the stars have never shone so bright.

-Jenna Elphick
October 10, 2007

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A Villonnet is a hybrid of the Villanelle and the Sonnet. It has the Iambic Pentameter of both, but holds the four-stanza/line structure of the sonnet, while utilizing the two-line rhyme nature of the villanelle. The final stanza replaces the sonnet couplet with a typical villanelle tercet.