Assignment for Lesson 2

The Moon

With a wish to steal the moon,
he planned it all with fine thought
and just the thought made him swoon.

Near his impending ruin,
gathering his might, he fought
with a wish to steal the moon.

The final day dawned upon soon,
the nitty-gritty again taught
and just the thought made him swoon.

He waited from morn to noon
for the supreme dream he sought
with a wish to steal the moon.

Night lit the sky like a boon,
he shrank the moon, reached o'er, caught
and just the thought made him swoon.

Cheerful, he started to croon,
thanked the Lord, admired his lot.
With a wish to steal the moon
and just the thought made him swoon.

Assignment

Write a poem using the Villanelle form description using a consistent number of syllables in each line. Incorporate the devices of alliteration and assonance.

The Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem's two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2