thoughts-madrigal

The English Madrigal form was the creation of Geoffrey Chaucer. It is written in Iambic Pentameter measures,
comprised of three stanzas. The first stanza is a triplet, and these lines are used throughout the poem as refrains.
Stanza two is a quatrain, with lines three and four are identical to the first two lines of the triplet.
The third stanza is a sestet, the last three lines of which repeat the original tercet.

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Softly they sleep, and howling fitful rise,
prized guardians bar passages of sight.
They seek to mark the movement into light.

Self-sired, these fearsome phantoms speak their lies,
their might relies on frightening into flight.
Softly they sleep, and howling fitful rise,
prized guardians bar passages of sight.

Dare we refuse to rehearse our own demise
in smoke and mirrors born of self-despite?
The passion for life lived must reignite.
Softly they sleep, and howling fitful rise,
prized guardians bar passages of sight.
They seek to mark the movement into light.