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Memento

Memento

One day in early September
I met my fate that date.
My wife.

A date I will always remember.
The day I met my soul mate.
my life.

Memento, created by Emily Romano, is a poem about a holiday or an anniversary, consisting of two stanzas as follows: the syllable count should be 8 beats for line one; 6 beats for line two; and two beats for line three. This is repeated twice for each stanza. The rhyme scheme is: a/b/c/a/b/c for each of the two stanzas.