Just a spot I captured last fall that looked lovely. Thought I'd try to paint a poetic portrait of it. It's just a pond by a local restaurant.

This poem is a made with Tercets
It is a poem with a very unique structure and tempo. It carries sets of three or more tercets with a syllable count of 8/8/11 for a minimum of 3 sets, making a minimum of 12 lines. It uses the rhyme from the first two lines as the rhyme of the last line of the next stanza, regardless of the number of tercets. For the last stanza, it uses the rhyme from the first lines of the first stanza. Had there been only three stanzas, the rhyme scheme would have been:
aab ccb dda.
If there had been 5 stanzas, the rhyme scheme would have been:
aab ccb ddc eec ffa.
I used a set of 6 tercets. The rhyme scheme for this poem is:
aab ccb ddc eed ffe gga.
The tempo is the most unique aspect of the poem. The rhythm goes with an uneven cadence where the short lines end in a feminine (soft) accent, while the long lines end in a masculine (hard) accent on the last syllable. Although I did use a few masculine lines in this one. This pattern lends itself to enjambment well.

This picture was taken by the author himself in the fall of 2013.

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