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Amy's Forever Knight Poetry
Last Modified February 9, 2008
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"He Never Blames Her"
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Fourteen lines in three stanzas, unrhymed.
Nick
never accuses Janette of complicity in his condition.
"a wound he wears because she so wanted him" |
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"Mai's Little Boy"
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Seventeen pentameter quintains, rhymed.
His
mother's murder has shadowed Doctor Chung's entire life.
"a heart can miss what it never possessed" |
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"The
Coming Choice"
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Five pentameter sestets, rhymed. Janette contemplates the choice she will have to make when Nick regains his humanity.
"Kill him. Convert him. Or make him forget." |
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"Someone
Like Me"
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Five tetrameter quintains, unrhymed. Nick
finds strength in the thought that he is not the first
vampire to seek his lost humanity.
"those unknown saints who succeeded / in escaping this life alive" |
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"At Issue"
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Ten pentameter quatrains, rhymed. While interrogating the suspect in "Dead Issue," Nick identifies his struggle with hers.
"I cannot tell you how time seems to slow, / watching that flaming stake strike home again." |
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"Longer than the Medicis"
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Nine pentameter 18-line stanzas, unrhymed. One night in the endless parade of nights preceding the "Partners of the Month" flashbacks, Janette and Nick host a party.
"so like the consuming love he offered / which she had just begun to learn to fear." |
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