Writing in Snow

Numismatic Love

Your golden splendor captivates
My soul, my body, and my mind,
While your currency motivates
All the happiness that I find.

Without you, I am penniless,
Destitute, insolvent, and broke;
Without a place to hang my hope,
Alone and complete friendless.

Lines: 8
Form: Rispetto, Italian poetry form, composed two rhyming quatrains with strict meter. Rispetto is usually iambic tetrameter (four feet) with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd. Heroic Rispetto is composed of iambic pentameter (five feet) with the same rhyme scheme. Alternate rhyme schemes are ababccdd, abababcc, or abab cddc. Rispetto contain either one or two stanzas. The name Rispetto comes from the purpose of the poem, which is the poet paying respect to “his lady love”.