Red: A Rondelet

Dripping red blood
from her pale wrist she cut deeply.
Dripping red blood
screams her pain she kept hidden, locked.
She relish the pain silently,
her final seconds end slowly—
dripping red blood.

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In response to OctPoWriMo 2016 by Morgan Dragonwillow‘s Day 25.

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The Rondelet is a relatively short poem using the entire opening line as its refrain. It is French in origin, another member of the 13th century Rondeau Family of Forms which is defined by its use of the rentrement.

The Rondelet is:

• a heptastich, a poem in 7 lines.
• in French syllabic. Syllable count per line are 4-8-4-8-8-8-4 In English tends to be iambic in pattern.
• composed with a rentrement, in the Rondelet the entire L1 is repeated as refrain in L3 and L7.
• rhymed. Rhyme scheme interlocks between the refrain AbAabbA.