She Gets Me

A love poem in Rondeau form (described following the entry).

She understands my very soul.
She's classical, she's rock and roll.
She makes me laugh, she laughs with me.
She beams with personality.
She fills the gaps, she makes me whole.

It was one winter, on a stroll,
my love she won, my heart she stole.
Like swains of yore, I took a knee.
She understands.

Sometimes she's solemn, sometimes droll.
She's there, if needed, to console.
Accepting if we don't agree,
she's serious but still carefree.
Our love is smooth; on cruise control.
She understands.

Rondeau form ▶︎

15 lines, made up of a quintain, followed by a quatrain and ending in a sixain.
> Lines 9 &15 are 4 syllables each, all other lines are 8 syllables each.
> In English it is usually metered, most often iambic tetrameter except the refrain, which is iambic dimeter.
> Composed with rentrement, a refrain repeated from the opening phrase of the poem.
> Rhymed, using only 2 rhymes except for the refrain being unrhymed, rhyme scheme aabba, aabR, aabbaR (R being the refrain).