Half Sonnet

Leafless bushes bangled
With carnelian beads. Lines of woodbine
Red above the rushes, tangled.

The crabapple branch like a spine
Of radiant drops. The sun bleeds
Light like a lantern in a mine.

The grasses lisping seeds
Across the board. I want to flop
And fall where the light leads.

There is no reason to stop
If it’s time to steal. The only cord
To tie bottom and top.

The trees catch light in a creel
Of branches, grey slivers wheel.

It’s a variant on a tertia rima, but it’s 14 lines, ends with a couplet, and has a traveling internal rhyme. The tercets are 3-4-3 and line two has a period after the first two stresses. The rhyme of the last word becomes the middle rhyme of the next stanza. So the rhyme scheme is:

///A
//B.//C
///A

///C
//D.//B///C

///B
//E.//D
///B

///D
//F.//E
///D

///F
////F