lambent serpents all intertwined
forbidden love beneath the moon
a chance taboo does slip one's mind
once bitten are relieved too soon
ardent blood stains their sultry skin
in peace freed like a firing pin
dying blissfully there aglow
together alone free to go
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A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry, is a complete poem of two rhyme quatrains with strict meter.
The meter is usually iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd. A Heroic Rispetto is
written in Iambic pentameter, usually featuring the same rhyme scheme.
