MINE'S A DOUBLE

This poem, a Double Tetractys, was written in response to a challenge: to combine a Double Tetractys with a Univocalic poem.

The Tetractys consists of five lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20). It therefore follows that a Double Tetractys consists of ten lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1

The Univocalic is a difficult and very obscure form of poetry in which the writer uses only ONE of the five available vowels, A, E, I, O or U. No other vowels are allowed.

I took the easy option and chose the vowel E.

WREN

See
the wren,
resplendent:
her clever eye,
her sweet essence. Deep, let her sleep be deep;
there, let the green hedge be her perfect bed;
the rye, the reed,
be her screen;
shelter
her.