Winter swans

• About a troubles relationship, a couple walking around a lake after two days of heavy arguments
• The could a had given their all- two days of rain
• The waterlogged earth gulping for breath
• Slow stepping in the lakes shingle and sand
• In tercets
• Volta occurs in line 14 " porcelain over the stilling water"
• Final stanza is a couplet, unbalanced tercets are now replaced with balance