Twilight Song - Ottava Rima

 

Twilight Song - Ottava Rima

 

Long shaded walks neath gilded canopies,

as Autumn’s twilight song proclaimed the cold

with words from lips of russet, aired with ease,

entwined with brittle leaves of bronze and gold

in muted tones; a whisper on a breeze,

that breathed of sun-kissed hands she used to hold;

of how an arctic moon upon her crept,

dissolving thoughts of Summer as she slept.

The wind did paint in pearl encrusted hue,

o’er fading hint of fragrant amber glow

with jewelled tears of frosty morning dew;

the pale sun all but chilled the earth below.

Of ashen light, a season born anew

brought wilderness and unrelenting snow

to smother hibernating Autumn spice.

Entombed, without her dreams, in lands of ice.

 

 

 

 

Ottava Rima - 8 lines of iambic pentameter

Rhyme scheme abababcc

I've battled with this for a while. It's work in progress so please be as critical as you like.

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