Invitation

Invitation is a short poem about a small bird who flutters down next to a person to remind them to return the courtesy already given by that person's friends (but not yet returned).


    There are six stanzas. Each stanza has five lines. The first four lines rhyme A,B,A,B and contain a syllable count of 7 - the last line of each stanza has a syllable count of 8 and, for each of the six stanzas, maintains the same rhyme. While the structure of six stanzas has been maintained as six chapter breaks, each stanza has had its lines split-apart in order to preserve the intent (the pacing) of each line, and thus each line is given its own page; there may be instances, however, where managing the evolution of the poem in your mind, some lines have been split into multiple pages (making it so a chapter is not necessarily equal to the count of lines of a stanza).