A Catena Rondo with a repetitive, complicated rhyme scheme. I’ve left the rhyme scheme within the poem – letters ABBA, etc. I hope you’ll try it and share one with me!
A Long lay the shadows
B calico stretches, defiant of man’s limits
B I hunch into my coughing fits
A Long lay the shadows
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A Fatigue washes over me, a bitter rain
B I smile rainbows when I don’t know what to say
B but daughter laughs sunshine, turns night into day
A Fatigue washes over me, a bitter rain
A Long lay the shadows
B1 calico stretches, defiant of man’s limits
B2 I hunch over into one of my coughing fits
A Long lay the shadows
B1 Calico stretches, defiant of man’s limits
C1 And tells me in sizzles, your death lingers
C2 then Resists my icy fingers
B1 Calico stretches, defiant of man’s limits
C1 And tells me in sizzles, your death lingers
D1 I dance in my bed
D2 She meows in protest, pulls back her head
C1 And tells me in sizzles, your death lingers
D1 I dance in my bed
E1 Distorted voices haunt the walls
E2 feverish steps up and down the halls
D1 I dance in my bed
E1 Distorted voices haunt the walls
A Long lay the shadows
F I silence my heart, I silence my toes
E1 Distorted voices haunt the walls
A Long lay the shadows
B1 Calico stretches, defiant of man’s limits
G then quietly, carefully on my chest she sits
A Long lay the shadows
AbyKittiwake 