Man in the Moon, where have you been?
"Tis ages since your face I've seen ~
You are my rock in dark of night
and keep at bay all tears or fright.
Tonight you're back and so serene.
Upon the softest, sweet sateen
I've dreamt the Queen a wolverine.
Your presence rules the sky so bright ~
Man in the Moon.
For travelers you light, pristine,
a pathway to the Evergreens ~
gathering places of delight.
Nocturnal fairies there alight
on moonbeams shining while they preen ~
Man in the Moon.
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Author Notes
A Rondeau is a french form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba, aabR, aabbaR.Lines 9 and 15 are short, a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).
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