Alankar(Decor) -125

Baited Dream(English Quintet) The English Quintet is: stanzaic, written in any number of quintets (5 line stanzas) . metered, most commonly iambic pentameter, although meter is optional. rhymed, rhyme scheme ababb, cdcdd etc. Baited Dream A dream put me to sleep in a palace On a royal diwan bed I was left My dream dragged me just to heaven's terrace And heaven pulled me straight to her arrest Fancy colours waltzed around at their best I held the dream so tight not to break me But from west sun came signalling my time Aliens some then surged to ready me Perfumed I bathed perfumed I dressed sublime 'May be me there the queen', I dreamt in rhyme Feasted dainty I got wreathed of a threat Just in time my time came for them awesome But my vision was blind to miss their cheat It was my time for them, planned well gruesome Ere I could scent it I was chained wholesome They all started laughing like a lion's roar I was trembling baited by cannibals Mindful my heart alarmed me of my gore I urged a way out from those animals Fleeing strength broke out against their verbals Just then sun from east rayed his helping hand That I could hold it tight to flee away And I did so in no time to my land Leaving me safe on my cot did sun say 'Fear not child, no more of a bad dream-day'