A walk in the park with my grandson resulted in him spotting this flower and bug. The wildflower is a Black-eyed Susan. He got all excited and asked me to take its picture and write a poem. So here it is.

I wrote this poem is a Rispetto style, but played with it a bit. The Rispetto is a classic Italian form consisting of only 8 lines divided into two quatrains. The meter is iambic tetrameter: daDUMdaDUMdaDUMdaDUM. The distinguishing characteristic of this form is that the rhyme scheme changes from abab alternate-line rhyming in stanza one to ccdd couplet rhyming in the second.
I thought, as long as the rhyming changes, why not change and alternate the meter too, between iambic and trochee. So in Stanza 1 I have the meter set as: iamb/troch/iamb/troch. While in the second stanza I have: iamb/iamb/troch/troch. Now there's some alternation!

This photograph was taken by the author on July 11, 2013.

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