Fate Forgot

Fate Forgot is a poem that I wrote which looks into the lives of two people who "should have" been in love, should have gotten married, should have lived happily ever after, but, fate somehow dropped the ball.


   There are twelve stanzas of four lines each. The odd line stanzas rhyme ABAB have an internal rhyme. The last line of a stanza's last word rhymes with the second line of the following stanza.  The odd lines are 14 syllables and the even lines are 11 syllables. The meter is da da DUM da da da DUM... for all lines.


   The structure of twelve stanzas has been broken up into twelve chapter breaks, but each stanza has had its lines split-apart in order to preserve the intent (the pacing) of each line, and thus each line may be 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, or, multiple lines of a stanza remain on the same page (making it so a chapter is not necessarily equal to the count of lines of a stanza).