Day 47: Shakespeare's High School Poetry...Dreaming

The Minute Poem is rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff.

Nightmares

The storm is getting worse at night.

It’s hard to fight.

When nightmares come,

I wake undone.

The forest darkens, walls close in.

The shadows win.

Until the day,

I’ve lost the way.

Until I fall asleep again.

The walls close in.

It’s hard to fight

My mind at night.