Crazy Pissed Off Guy in Storm

[Brownlie]

Thanks, but I've already met her. I went to visit her at her home before she got famous. She does make a good cup of tea.

"She's a very composed woman, she rarely moves... " Rarely moving tends to happen after one dies, but I would think she would be a decomposed woman, rather than a composed one

Well leave it to Leanne to find such an obscure form as a "Quatern". It's one of the type of French poems that has a repeating line. I've always disliked those forms as they generally come across as too mental (not in this case). Regardless, they are good to practice on.

Dale

According to Wikipedia's entry on the villanelle:

"With reference to the form's repetition of lines, Philip K. Jason suggests that the "villanelle is often used, and properly used, to deal with one or another degree of obsession"[24] citing Sylvia Plath's "Mad Girl's Love Song" amongst other examples. He notes the possibility for the form to evoke, through the relationship between the repeated lines, a feeling of dislocation and a "paradigm for schizophrenia."

"Rarely moving tends to happen after one dies, but I would think she would be a decomposed woman, rather than a composed one"

, if I were more clever I'd come up with some statement she made about death in a poem.