Brrrr

A Vilanelle (described below poem) about winter in New England.

It snowed again today,
and the shovel broke last week.
I think I'll wait 'til May.

The sky is turning gray,
and the day is looking bleak.
It snowed again today.

It's too cold, anyway.
I don't mean to be a geek.
I think I'll wait 'til May.

I'd like to find a way
to end this winter streak.
It snowed again today.

There's more to come, they say,
and I'm feeling kind of meek.
I think I'll wait 'til May.

I'm just too cheap to pay.
My bank account's too weak.
It snowed again today.
I think I'll wait 'til May.


A villanelle is a 19-line poem with a specific structure that includes 5 tercets (3-line stanzas) and a quatrain (4-line stanza). The poem has 2 refrains and 2 repeating rhymes. The 1st & 3rd lines of the 1st tercet alternate at the end of each subsequent stanza until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The rhyme scheme is ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA.