Create an original 11 line poem of three stanzas tercets of 3 lines each with a fourth stanza doublet of two lines. Be sure to follow Terza Rima
It is an interlocking, repeating pattern of the first and third line sharing a rhyme, while the second line is shared with the first and third line of the next stanza. The pattern looks like this: a/b/a, b/c/b, c/d/c, and so on. This is an example of Terza Rima:
Acquainted with the Night
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have out walked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right
I have been one acquainted with the night.
‒Robert Frost, 1928