I wonder about the raindrops
Water beads that fall from the sky
At the end of hot summer days
Bring fragrant relief to the Earth.

Yet during the cool autumn days,
I wonder about the raindrops;
When they fall from the sombre clouds
They wet the skin and chill the bones.

In the cold blistering winter,
With biting wind that freezes us;
I wonder about the raindrops,
As they turn to harsh snow and hale.

From skies to Earth, they always fall,
Constant but our welcome changes;
Whatever be it the season,
I wonder about the raindrops.

A Quatern for Day 16 

The French poetic form named the quatern incorporates a refrain like in the villanelle and eight-syllable lines like in the kyrielle.

Quatern Poetic Form Rules

This poem has 16 lines broken up into 4 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas).

Each line is comprised of eight syllables.

The first line is the refrain. In the second stanza, the refrain appears in the second line; in the third stanza, the third line; in the fourth stanza, the fourth (and final) line.

There are no rules for rhyming or iambics.

~Robert Lee Brewer on Poetic Asides (www.writersdigest.com)~