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The Rose

Summary:

A poem (specifically a Villanelle) about Rosie, loosely set from Alastor's point of view. (Not in the sense he wrote it, just from his perspective.)

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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The Rose is softly cloaked in dev’lish night,  

A mistress sweet as Death's chilling embrace.

Twining tight, I dance with her rose-gold light.

 

Pray tell, her promises seem oh-so-bright.

Sharp smile wide upon her conniving face.

The Rose is softly cloaked in dev’lish night. 

 

Dangled high on her string, my hapless plight.

Her Machiavellian plans, quite base.

Twining tight, I dance with her rose-gold light.

 

Upon her greeting, she seems so polite,

Charmed, you’ll find, by her dainty, boundless grace.

The Rose is softly cloaked in dev’lish night.

 

A bond, a Deal, a pretty chain wrapped tight.

Sealed with a shake, a smile, wine-red lace.

Twining tight, I dance with her rose-gold light.

 

Darling, dangerous, the hand she does sleight.

Hidden within her sleeve, myself—her ace.

The Rose is softly cloaked in dev’lish night,  

Twining tight, I dance with her rose-gold light.

 

 

Notes:

A Villanelle has five tercets (three-line stanza), and is finished out with a quatrain (four-line stanza). They traditionally follow an ABA rhyme scheme for the entirety of the poem, with the quatrain being ABAA.

In addition to this, the first and last lines of the first tercet are repeated as refrains throughout the rest of the poem, alternating at the ends of the following tercets and ending the quatrain together.

I kept each line to ten syllables so as to fit the optional iambic pentameter; however, I did not actually use the iambic pentameter, as there is no intentional pattern to the stressed and unstressed syllables.

If anyone's interested in my reasoning/the meanings I put behind some of the lines, I'm happy to answer in the comments.

 

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