The Poetic Musings of Dawn

trilonnet (#122)

Last Hemorrhage

old valves too weak to palpitate
this pumping organ cannot keep
up without plasma to sustain

dark red imprint upon the pane
a smearing reminder to reap
from love forgotten, filled with hate

eventually is too late
body collapses in a heap
no longer feeling any pain

allowed to cut, never again
lesson learning never comes cheap
death is the goal we did create

always bleeding out from the heart
souls once together now depart


Trilonnet
The Trilonnet consists of five stanzas - the first four stanzas are three-lined stanzas (triplets) and the concluding stanza is a couplet (two lines).

The form requires either iambic tetrameter or iambic pentameter. The three-lined stanzas are not rhymed within themselves, but are linked together with a rhyming scheme and the couplet has its own rhyme. There are two options for the rhyme scheme of the Trilonnet:
abc abc abc abc dd
or
abc cba abc cba dd


The trilonnet is related to the sonnet forms, in that it carries 14 lines of rhyming and metered poetry.