Is the monotetra still popular?

Question

"My Heart with Yours"

You faded into distant black,

I felt the beat of my heart crack,

where once lived wholeness now dwells lack.

I want you back, I want you back.

I rue decisions that I've made,

and I regret this game I played,

but now you're gone and I have paid.

I wish you'd stayed, I wish you'd stayed.

I wish you back with all my will,

whatever part of me I kill

you leave an ache that none can fill.

I love you still. I love you still.

Answer 1

I like.  The flow was superb. Now do you love me and want me back? lol

Answer 2

Didn't they develop a vaccine for monotetra back in the '70's?

[Having performed my obligations to inject a soupcon of levity into the oft  mirthless task of savagely denigrating your creative efforts, I shall now proceed.]

I love this poem. You have made conforming to the sometimes difficult requirements of the form seem effortless. The big pitfall of the monotetra is that the rhyme becomes monotonous, and then the rhythm becomes infected with the same malady. Not so here. The rhyming is inventive, no easy task. The tempo is almost bouncy, which might not be the most appropriate for the rather mournful  tone of the content.  This produces a dramatic tension between the agonizing experience of loss and the vigor of the tempo. For me this is an uplifting expression of a resolve to keep on going despite the pain. I wonder if that was your intent or if it just came out that way.    

Answer 3

Iambic tetrameter...

Four iambic feet per line.

Last line of each stanza is 2 iambic feet repeated, but still is a total of 4 feet.

All four lines of each stanza rhyme.

You did well, darlin.

Answer 4

Wonderful!

Now I must go look up monotetra...