Separation

The time is getting very late,
The sun is setting in the sky,
I hate it when we separate.

She left me here at early dawn,
And said she would return tonight.
We hugged and kissed; then she was gone,
I still can feel her hold me tight.

They tell me that she'll soon be here,
If I don't see her I may die,
And no one can relieve my fear.

To me she is my number one,
My mother means the world to me,
She is the moon, the stars, the sun,
And without her I would not be.

The Saraband Sonnet is a delightful little sonnet form. In my search, I found only one place that mentioned the Saraband,

http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/2006Challenge/treten.html

The Saraband is based on a musical dance form and was originally an Asian dance. The poetry form was introduced in Spain in the 1700’s and later became known in France and Italy.

The Saraband Sonnet has four stanzas, alternating between tercets (3 lines) and quantrains (4 lines). The Saraband Sonnet affords the poet liberty in both rhyme scheme and either iambic tetrameter or pentameter.

Stanzas one and three, the tercets, carry a rhyme scheme of [a – x – a]. There are two options for rhyme in the second lines of the tercets. They may be omitted from the rhyme scheme, meaning they do not have to rhyme with any other line, or the second line of stanzas one and three (the x line in a-x-a) can rhyme with each other.

Stanzas two and four, the quatrains, may carry rhyme schemes of [b – b – c – c ], [b – c – b – c], [b – c – c – b], or any combination of the three.

The meter of the poem, in purest form, is tetrameter (8 syllables – 4 iambic or trochaic feet), usually iambic or trochaic meter, but it can also be written in pentameter (10 syllables – 5 iambic or trochaic feet).