Would you like another villanelle (The Wolf)?

Q

Questor

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It's amazing for you to write in this format. I am just amazed as I am not familiar with this. More of like a song lyric with repetitions of lines in strategic locations. The ode of Percy Beshey Shelley (Ode to the Westwind) I recall is in this style of rhyming. (I am not sure of the poets name if spelled correctly)
 
If you don't like it, that's okay. I just happen to be captivated by the format of the villanelle and feel like sharing it with others.


The Wolf

An eerie echo, plaintive cry,
is heard at night in forest lands,
a mournful call, a lonely sigh.

A wolf that bids a mate goodbye
with only voice that it commands,
an eerie echo, plaintive cry.

Its sad lament cannot defy
the order of what life demands
in mournful call and lonely sigh.

It strains to hear some like reply,
adrift by fate in nature's hands,
an eerie echo, plaintive cry.

Again the desperate plea shall fly
to where an empty hill still stands.
A mournful call and lonely sigh.

Alas! Lost love will not comply—
O'er moonlit snow the sound expands,
an eerie echo, plaintive cry,
a mournful call, a lonely sigh.
 
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