Steady Rhythm

Lay Down Flowers

For the fallen we will lay down flowers;
They will never walk among us again;
We honour them and remember their prowess;
For the fallen we will lay down flowers.
Their monuments we will raise like towers;
And the hurt the war left we'll seek to mend.
For the fallen we will lay down flowers;
Lo that they could walk among us again.









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Written for "HONORING OUR VETERANS " 
Lines: 8
Form: Based on triolet, but I've taken some liberties. Triolet (8 lines, 1st, 4th and 7th line are the same, 2nd and last line are the same. 3rd and 5th rhyme with 1st, 6th rhymes with 2nd. So the rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB). I've used decasyllabic (10-syllabic).