NEVILLE

The neville is a 7-line poem written in iambic tetrameter and trimeter (4 beats per line and 3 beats per line).   The syllable count per line is 8-6-6-8-6-6-8, and the rhyme scheme is abbacca.

Woodland Altar

I often stop to kneel in prayer'
beside a mountain stream
in forests where I seem
to sense God's presence everywhere.
I find an inward peace
as doubt and fear surcease.
I always feel His presence there.