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WHY BE WOEFUL OF FAILED LOVE?-- a terzanelle [It is better to love than not to love at all. Pure love will endure. Impure one is best forgotten.] If love is pure, it is nice. In love it is just a fact: Impure love cannot suffice. Love needs a heart full of tact. Without tact, love is a drag; In love it is just a fact. Lovers may advance or lag, But one must remember this: Without tact, love is a drag. Though to win in love we wish, And we spin many a dream, But one must remember this: If we fail let us not scream. Having loved is a reward. And, we spin many a dream. To be in love once again, If love is pure, it is nice. Having loved is a reward. Impure love cannot suffice. * A terzanelle is a nineteen line poem consisting of 5 tercets and 1 quatrain. Out of the 19 lines, 5 are non-repeated lines while the remaining 14 are really 7 lines occurring twice. The rhyming pattern is as follows [Repeated lines are shown in upper case]: A1 B1 A2; b C1 B1; c D1 C1; d E1 D1; e F1 E1; f A1 F1 A2 • Written in 7-7-7 format • REQUEST—While reviewing, please copy and paste the following in your review: This is a review for “entry:382103". [Please take care to place within { } the words in inverted commas above]. If that is too difficult, just type the title of the poem in your review. This is important because, otherwise, I may never know which poem you have reviewed, since the review will be shown against the book in which this entry appears. M C Gupta 27 October 2005 |