This is the third poem about our dinner cruise on the Mississippi River. Here is a shot of the inside of the boat, where we sat and dined.

This poem is a Rondeau Quatrain.
A Rondeau Quatrain has all the typical earmarks of a Rondeau poem, with only two rhymes throughout (an A and a B rhyme), as well as repeating lines used a refrains. Unlike the Rondeau proper, this poem repeats the entire line, rather than a portion. The Quatrain format utilizes an enveloping rhyme scheme of: abba. It also utilizes all four of the first stanza as it interweaves through the poem. A1, A2, B1, and B2 represent the four repeated lines and their associated rhymes. here is the poem's entire rhyme scheme:
A1,B1, B2,A2 -- a,b,B1,A1-- a,b,b,a -- a,b,B2,A2 -- A1,B1,B2,A2

This photograph was taken by the author himself on October 18, 2015.

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