Winter Interrupted

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Snows interrupted by a pair--
Assailants on the blanket fair.
First:  One to cast the threat of light
a challenge to the season's might.
Winter is warmed by window's flare.

The second half the blame to share,
the footprints mussing snow that's there.
They trample perfect as in spite.
Snows interrupted...

It's cheated likewise, forced to bear
the scars which mar it's beauty rare
so low now, felled from royal heights
a greyish slush from purest whites.
No subjects note, nor seem to care.
Snows interrupted.

Author's note:  The poem is in rondeau form, consisting of three stanzas.  A quintet, a quattrain 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).