Enchanted Forest (Ya-Du)

Into darkness /
our cars press on – /
mud, mess, tension – /
children shun sleep – /
day done, winter done: now on to spring we creep //

Vole explains the Ya-Du as follows:

• 1, 2, or 3 stanzas, each with 5 lines;
• Lines 1, 2, 3, and 4 have four syllables;
• Line 5 has 5, 7, 9, or 11 syllables;
• Lines 4 and 5 have end rhyme;
• Lines 1, 2, and 3 have climbing rhyme in syllables 4, 3, and 2;
• Lines 3, 4, and 5 have climbing rhyme in syllables 4, 3, and 2;
• There is a reference to the seasons.

Here is my poem again, color coded:

Into darkness                    /
our cars press on –          /
mud, mess, tension –    /
children shun sleep –     /
day done, winter done: now on to spring we creep //

Awkward, perhaps … sorry!

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