About Poetry – How to Write a Spanish Lira

Structure: A five-line stanza

Syllable count: The 5 lines have a specific pattern: 7, 11, 7, 7, and 11  syllables.

Rhyme scheme: Rhymed often using only consonant rhyme (when two words end with the same consonant sounds, even if the vowels are different). The most common rhyme scheme is aBabB.

WINTER SONG

November comes to an end.
December brings us Christmas, sparkling, and bright.
In my winter song, I send
the ancestors' second sight
out into the world, the sun child 's warmth and light.

The winter Solstice will pass,
the Yule time log will burn in my hearth and home.
Snow and ice will shine like glass.
Living in the pleasure dome,
where war and bloodshed soak the very Earth's loam.

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November morning
by Grace Guevara

November morning unfolds
heavy fog, drizzled grey sky, strewn apple seeds-
northern wind grows bleak and old
as maple trees stand bare, beads
of light knuckled by darkness, stalk-thin as reeds

Winter season turns the field
to ice; rose shrubs to broken sticks, fluff to stone-
the weeping willow, half-keeled,
waits out the cold, still alone
we stumble in thick socks, knitting warmth from bone