I just thought these roses were a very bright and unusual color, so I photographed them. At first, I didn't notice the dew drops until I got the image up on my ipad. The combination of the color and moisture, were the inspiration for this poem.

This poem is a Rondeau.
A Rondeau is a fixed form of poetry. It is often used in light or witty poems. It often has fifteen octo - or decasyllabic lines with three stanzas. It usually only has two rhymes (a & b) used in the poem. A word or words from the first part of the first line are used as a refrain ending the second and third stanzas.

The rhyme scheme, then, is;
aabba aabR aabbaR.
The format can carry any type of meter or syllable count, as long as it follows a fixed pattern. For this poem, I chose iambic tetrameter. Of course the refrain is not iambic.

I am using the word - orange - as a single syllable word, which is how Americans typically pronounce it.

This picture was taken by the author himself on May 25, 2015.

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