Deibide Baise Fri Toin

Deibide Baise Fri Toin

A similar name, but not much in common with the common-or-garden deibide, apart from being Irish. I don't know how to pronounce this one, or the literal meaning of its name, but here's what the verse form looks like:

Against Vegetation

Move! Without

doubt it helps to get about.

Except for triffids, a plant

can’t.

Poor daisies!

In peril as cow grazes,

prospects of survival not

hot.

Such fodder

can't flee even a plodder;

inferior to the least

beast.

No better,

the shiftless non-go-getter,

potato sat on a couch.

Ouch!

The syllable count is 3, 7, 7, 1 and it rhymes aabb. It is essential to the form that the a rhymes have two syllables, and the b rhymes have one syllable. There are a fair number of Irish forms - some of them with longer and more unpronounceable names - and most of them stipulate the type of rhyme as precisely as this.

Pasted from <http://volecentral.co.uk/vf/deibhidhe.htm>

Thanks to Bob Newman for his wonderful Volecentral resource site.

My example poem

Wet Cats     (Deibide Baise Fri Toin)

Don't worry

although they're sometimes furry

it's okay to get a pet

wet.

Don't insist

on fresh fish they can't resist;

cats can convert once they've tried

fried.

I'm inclined

to think cats are not refined,

but just aloof. I don't know

though.

© Lawrencealot - April 11, 2014

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