Butterfly Pendent
-Marie Summers
A butterfly pendant of gold and blue
Sparkled with beauty in the blazing sun.
No matter if it were broken or new,
Its breathlessness could not be outdone.
Blissful was the lady who received this gift,
From her sweetheart, a young college boy.
Never again did she feel this kind of lift,
Which had blanketed her with love and joy. . .
Until one fine day she was called upon
by her sweetheart love to spend her life.
With her smile, his heart she had won,
So he asked her to be his lovely wife.
With the butterfly pendant upon her chest,
blossoming buttercups filling her bouquet,
And two gold rings to be forever blessed;
The couple was married without delay.
Found at: http://shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/quatrain.html
I am not a real fan of this flow with this type of rhyme scheme. (Wow... aren't I the poetry nerd...) Seriously though, if you're going to use a,b,a,b rhyming, I think the lines should be a little shorter so you don't lose the feel of the words you're rhyming with. But maybe it's just me, and you read this poem and thought that it was absolutely perfect! That's one of the neat things about poetry... one person can feel one way about a certain poem, and another person can feel the total opposite. Maybe it's something that says more about the neat differences of people themselves... And poetry is just one way that those differences are revealed...
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This kind of poem is called a Quatrain, which is simply a poem that is made of an indefinite number of stanzas, with four lines in each stanza, and those four lines follow a specific rhyme scheme. (This poem then would be following the a,b,a,b c,d,c,d e,f,e,f etc. pattern.)
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