Gwadodyn

This is a complex form for which I found disparate specifications on the internet.

What is certain is

It is an old Welsh form

It is syllabic, usually 9/9/10/9

It is stanzaic, usually quatrains or sestets

It is rhyming, usually mono-rhyme of the 9 syllable lines

And with internal and/or interleaved rhyme for the long line.

Here are the better references I used:

The gwawdodyn is a Welsh poetic form with a couple variations. However, both versions are comprised of quatrains (4-line stanzas) that have a 9/9/10/9 syllable pattern and matching end rhymes on lines 1, 2, and 4. The variations are made in that third line:

• One version has an internal rhyme within the third line. So there’s a rhyme somewhere within the third line with the end rhyme on the third line.
• The other version has an internal rhyme within the third line that rhymes with an internal rhyme in the fourth line.

In both cases, the rhyme starts somewhere in the middle of the third line and it is a unique rhyme to the end rhyme in lines 1, 2, and 4.

Here’s a possible diagram for the first version (with the x’s symbolizing syllables):

1-xxxxxxxxa

2-xxxxxxxxa

3-xxxxbxxxxb

4-xxxxxxxxa

Note: The “b” rhyme in the middle of line 3 could slide to the left or right as needed by the poet.

Here’s an example I wrote for the first version:

“Cheat,” by Robert Lee Brewer

The rumors you’ve heard are true: I run

to forget my past. What I have won,

I’ve lost in lasting memories, blasting

through my brain like bullets from a gun.

As you can see, “run,” “won,” and “gun” rhyme with each other, as do “lasting” and “blasting.”

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Here’s a possible diagram for the second version:

1-xxxxxxxxa

2-xxxxxxxxa

3-xxxxbxxxxx

4-xxxbxxxxa

Note: In this version, both “b” rhymes can slide around in their respective lines, which affords the poet a little extra freedom.

Here’s my example modified for the second version:

“Cheat,” by Robert Lee Brewer

The rumors you’ve heard are true: I run

to forget my past. What I have won,

I’ve lost in lonley moments, my sorrow

my only friend while others are stunned.

In this version, “run,” “won,” and “stunned” rhyme (okay, “stunned” is a slant rhyme), while “lonely” and “only” rhyme inside lines 3 and 4.

Please play around with the form this week, because it’ll be the focus of the next WD Poetic Form Challenge starting next week.

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Pasted from <http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/gwawdodyn-poetic-forms>

A big thanks to Robert Lee Brewer

Gwawdodyn, gwow-dód-in-heer (gwad = poem) is the 20th codified, Official Welsh Meter, an Awdl. It is a combination of a cyhydded naw ban couplet followed by either a toddaid or cyhydedd hir couplet.The Gwawdodyn is:

• is stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains made up of a Cyhydedd Naw Ban couplet followed by either a Toddaid or Cyhydedd Hir.
• syllabic, L1,L2,L4 are 9 syllable lines and L3 is a 10 syllable line.
• when written with a cyhydedd hir couplet the stanza is
• rhymed aaba, with L3 internal rhyme and L4 cross rhymed b.

• when written with a Toddaid
• mono-rhymed.
• composed with gair cyrch following the main rhyme and caesura of L3. The gair cyrch end rhyme is echoed in the first half of L4 in secondary rhyme, assonance or consonance.

with Cyhydedd Hir x x x x x x x x a x x x x x x x x a x x x x b x x x x b x x x x b x x x a x x x x x x x x c x x x x x x x x c x x x x d x x x x d x x x x d x x x a with Toddaid x x x x x x x x a x x x x x x x x a x x x x x x x b - x c x x x x c x x x b x x x x x x x x d x x x x x x x x d x x x x x x x e - x f x x x x f x x x e

House of Stone Turns to Sand by Judi Van Gorder Ballots stolen, voters turned away, but dead men will vote twice on the day. No new fields to plow, there is no work now,  no sweat on the brow, no one to care? Mugabe builds his army of boys they now shoulder guns instead of toys He took back white-farms without care - the fields without yields leave black cupboards bare. Sick mother has no milk for baby, a crocodile barks in the belly. Mother is dying, baby is crying no one defying, no one will dare.

(Zimbabwe is Shona for house of stone)This poem uses Cyhydedd Hir end couplets in stanza 1 & 3 and Toddaid end couplet in stanza 2. I couldn't resist creating a main rhyme in stanza 2 that was also a linking rhyme between all stanzas.

Pasted from <http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=968>

A big thanks to Judi Van Gorder

Gwawdodyn Hir

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
Description:	(gwow DOD in heer) A syllabic form that can go in two ways. Either way it consists of a syllabic sestet where all lines except the fifth are nine syllables and monorhymed. The fifth line is ten syllables and has a separate rhyme that may be internal (fifth and tenth syllable) or cross-rhymed with the sixth line (seventh through the ninth syllable of fifth line cross-rhymes with third through the fifth in sixth line).
Origin:	Welsh
Schematic:	xxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxa xxxxbxxxxb xxxxxxxxa or xxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxa xxxxxxxxa xxxxxxbxxx  (Syllable 7 to 9)
Rhythm/Stanza Length:

Pasted from <http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/001/131.shtml>

A Big thanks to Bob Newman

My Example

Uninvited      (Gwadodyn)

My girl gone- my love unrequited

left me lonely and not delighted.

I gave girl next door transport from the store,

that and nothing more! How short-sighted.

You'd think perhaps I'd been benighted

I did not know what I'd ignited

That gal didn't knock; my door wasn't locked

from sleep I was shocked yet excited.

That she was nude was now high-lighted

by her chills that I soon had righted.

That she had applied could not be denied,

but midnight rides must be invited.

© Lawrencealot - December 25, 2013

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Rishal

This is a Stanzaic, Refrain form created by an Australian poet writing as  Chindarella on Allpoetry.com.

Stanzaic:             Four or more tercet stanzas plus a single line stanza

Isosyllabic:          Decastich lines  (10 syllables)

Rhyme Pattern:   aba cdc efe ghg x (end-rhyme and internal rhyme)

Refrain:              The first line of each stanza consists of two

                          five syllable sections, The last section of line 1

                          becomes the first section of line 1 in the next stanza.

The 2nd line in each stanza must have internal rhyme with the 5th syllable

rhyming with the 10th.

The final line does not need to rhyme;

Example Poem

Intermission

We all are forewarned, no one is surprised.

Though death awaits all, we all may ride tall.

We can't write death out; script can't be revised.

No one is surprised that our days will end

By some grand design, while most parts are fine

there are no clues that Death's presence portend.

That our days will end, all but children know.

How poor we'd be served if fear were deserved.

Such in not the case, play, love, give, then go.

All but children know our curtain shall fall.

Readied all your life, by faith, friends, and wife,

by, works of hand and mind and love for all.

Our curtain shall fall for intermission.

(c) Lawrencealot -April 29, 2013

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Rannaigheacht mhor

Rannaigheacht mhor (ron-á-yach voor, the ‘great versification’) is an ancient Irish quatrain using 7-syllable lines with 1-syllable end-words rimed abab—a-rime can be assonance, but b-rime must be rime, here meaning perfect ‘correspondence’ or Comharda, in which consonants of the same class (p-t-k, m-n-ng etc.) are interchangeable—plus alliteration in every line—preferably between end-word and preceding stressed word (always thus in each quatrain’s closing couplet)—with at least two cross-rimes per couplet (assonance okay in leading couplets), one being L3’s end-word rimed within L4.  Being Irish, it requires the dunedh(first word, phrase, or line repeated in closing).  Each quatrain, as well as each leading couplet, must be able to stand on its own.  Modern specs for this form are given here:

http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/celtic1.html#mho">http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/celtic1.html#mho</a>

Example Poem

Great Versifiers

Men sometimes are dreamers, lost,

lust-driven schemers who, when

hunting, deceive.  With trust  tossed

at great cost; none believe men.

(c) Lawrencealot - May 16, 2012

No template can be more than a rough guide, but here one is:

Note here, I failed to use proscribed alliteration in the final line! Damn.

And upon sober review I find that this fails also, in that the first

couplet cannot stand alone.  Someone competent, please provide me

with a perfect example.  I shall replace this.

Paired Triquin

This is a form recently invented by Gary Kent Spain, aka venicebard on allpoetry.

To Quote Gary:

 Some paired what, you say?  This is a form I invented recently, not just to invent a form but because I liked the sound of it.

‘Triquin’ is a reversal of ‘quatrain’ (I dropped the a because both ‘triquain’ and ‘troisquain’ sounded funny to me) and is defined as a three-line stanza consisting of:

L1 - trochee-iamb-iamb-iamb

(DUM de de DUM de DUM de DUM);

L2 - iamb-iamb-iamb-iamb

(de DUM de DUM de DUM de DUM)

L3 - (indented) iamb-iamb 

(de DUM de DUM);

and it must contain alliteration between two consecutive stressed words in one of its lines,

and the final consonant sound of L2 must match that of L3 (last two consonants,

if the last syllables of both end in two or more consonant sounds).

‘Paired Triquins’ specifically refers to two of these forming one six-line stanza,

with another variant allowed (only if one wishes) for the new L5, namely:

pyrrhic-spondee-iamb-iamb   (de de DUM DUM de DUM de DUM)

...and the additional requirement of having the 1st and 3rd DUMs of L2 rime the third DUM of L1,

and the 1st and 3rd DUMs of L5 rime the 2nd and 4th, respectively, of L4.

Syllabic schematic:

XxxXxAxX

xAxXxAxT

     xXxT [‘T’= terminal consonant]

XxxBxXxC

xBxXxCxT [or xxBXxCxT]

       xXxT

Example Poem

Mentor   (Paired Triquin Pair)

Scoundrels will scheme and squirm to make

you learn what you have spurned in past

    these tasks attest.

Welsh as this seems, it to's been true

in dreams,  these I eschew sometimes,

     but not new forms.

Granted not gracing our fair bard

this hour would only sour myself.

    There'd be no riff.

Colleges fail,  but mentors don't;

they're hale and really won't give up.

    They just can't stop.

© Lawrencealot - June 20, 2013

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Awdl Gywydd

Awdl Gywydd

Type: structure, meter, rhyme, stanzaic.

Description: Pronounced ‘owdl gow-widd’. Seven syllable quatrains with end rhymes and couplet binding. Welsh origin.

Schema:

xxxxxxa

xxaxxxb (a can be 3rd or 4th syllable)

xxxxxxc

xxcxxxb (c can be 3rd or 4th syllable)

Mid-line rhymes a and c can be various forms of rhyme but the end of line rhyme b should be perfect rhyme.

Stanza Length: quatrain.

Pasted from <http://paintingpoetrypoeticforms.blogspot.com/2008/10/awdl-gywydd.html> 

Example Poem

Midnight Ride When Full of Beer

At the game I took a chance

then at the dance I drank more.

After the twelfth beer of mine

I was supine on the floor.

They gave me hot coffee sips

which burned my lips but woke me

up so I could drink some more.

and made me sure want to pee.

After irrigating long,

the jukebox song seemed too loud.

I had the bartender send

beer to a friend in the crowd.

We both drank more; both got drunk.

Who would have thunk?  Just on beer?

When the bar closed I was stoned

so help was phoned, have no fear.

"You can't drive.  There's not a chance.

The Beerbulance is waiting.

Along with the sodden maid

we're all afraid you're dating."

 © Lawrencealot - February 14, 2013

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Twisted End

The Twisted End form is a creation of Nichole Alexander.

This is a stanzaic poem consisting of four or five tercet stanzas.

Each stanza has independent monorhyme.

There is no line-length or meter requirement.

The defining requirement of the form is that some part  of each of the first two lines be "twisted"

together in forming the third stanza line which MUST INCLUDE INTERNAL RHYME.

Example Poem

Write a Twisted End   (Twisted End)

You must depend on rhyme as your good friend

with mono and internal rhyme to blend

depend on your internal rhyme to end.

The Twisted End sets forth no metric tone.

but permits choice if poet is so prone.

The Twisted End my friend permits your own.

No poetic device is disallowed.

A verse endowed will rise above the crowd.

Device endowed attempts should make one proud.

Alliterate or write with metaphor

or obfuscate and be a common boor.

Allit with wit makes common a bit more.

 © Lawrencealot - March 13, 2013

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Dreamscape

This form was invented by Sector-Hunter on Allpoetry.com  simply for people to have
fun while creating short poems with internal rhyme.

The Dreamscape is a form with only the following requirements:

There are two tercet stanzas.

The first two lines in each have rhyming beginning and ending words.

The third line needs no rhyme, and summarize the first two.
No line length or meter requirements.


I tried to show the smallest possible stanza, along with normal one.

Example Poem

Intermirroral

This is a form invented by Mark Andrew J Terry
These are the requirements of this form:
Rhyme Pattern: aabb 
Meter: None specified.
Couplet One:
Every word in the first line should rhyme with the corresponding word in line 2
Except for one word; those words must have contrary meanings, but same syllable count.

It can be expanded as far as you wish.
These are the requirements for a Sestet:
Rhyme Pattern: aabbcc

Meter: None specified.
Couplet One and Two:
Every word in the first line should rhyme with the corresponding word in line 2
Except for one word; those words must have contrary meanings, but same syllable count
Couplet Three:
Ends with mirrored rhyme, but also has internal rhyme


Example Poem

Party Time

Alluring tart proffering wile.
Demurring lass deferring guile.

Bewitching twit assures relief.
Enriching wit insures belief.

No way to stay the party game.
I'll try to buy the hearty dame.

© Lawrencealot - May 27, 2012

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Le Jeune

The Le Jeune Form:

Invented by Barb_Brown
Three to five  six line stanzas, where each line has 5 syllables
Each stanza is 6 lines
All lines are 5 syllables
Internal mono-rhyme at syllable 2 in lines 2 and 4
The Final word in each stanza is the same word, and must rhyme with the other mono-end-rhymes.
No meter required.



-  Three to five stanzas
-  Each stanza is 6 lines
-  All lines are 5 syllables
Rhyme notes with parenthetic words from example:
1.  L2 and L4, W2 (a) in all stanzas rhymes (seen, mean, deem, etc.)
2.  L2 and L4, last word (b) in all stanzas rhymes (dismay, displays, gray, etc.).
3.  L6, W3 (c) in all stanzas rhymes (ease, please, seize)
4.  L6, last word (d) in all stanzas is the same word and must rhyme with #2 above. (day)

This example should help clarify:

              Now!
Of hope comes much risk,
as seen in dismay.
Are you filled with shock,
so mean, these displays?
Gather all your wits
then to ease the day.

Of being human,
what deem you of gray?
Have you had thoughts of
odd schemes meant to stray?
Waste not a moment
then to please the day.

Of the dark of night,
in dreams do you stay?
Hide not in fear there,
nor demean your ways.
Draw on courage now,
then to seize the day!

by Barb Brown

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Lento

A poetic form created by Lencio Dominic Rodrigues, the Lento is named after it's creator, taken from his first name Lencio and rhymed to Cento, an existing form of poetry.

A Lento consists of two quatrains with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb, defe as the second and forth lines of each stanza must rhyme.  To take it a step further, but not required, try rhyming the first and third lines as well as the second and forth lines of each stanza in this rhyming pattern: abab, cdcd.

The fun part of this poem is thrown in here as all the FIRST words of each verse should rhyme. There is no fixed syllable structure to the Lento, but keeping a good, flowing rhythm is recommended.

For an added challenge, one may write a four-verse Lento and call it a Double Lento, or a six-versed Lento to become a Triple Lento.

Below is an example of a Lento:

Composed in winter of Two Thousand Five, (a)
Proposed by my dreams, this entire theme, (b)
Exposed now for all to write and have fun, (c)
Supposed to be easy though it doesn't seem. (b)

Two verses of four lines each you will write, (d)
Do rhyme the beginning word in every line, (e)
Pursue to keep last rhymes in line 2 and 4, (f)
Chew your brain a little, you'll do just fine! (e)


Example by Lawrencealot

Write a Lento

Designed in Two Thousand twelve with you in mind.
Refined to rhyme lines one and three (not required).
Aligned (also not required) but more refined,
Opined this poet.  Done because I so desired.

Write two verses of four lines each.  Be astute
right off the bat, rhyme lines two and four. They are
quite necessary, that one cannot refute.
Bright planning for first word rhyme will get you far.

© Lawrencealot - April 18, 2012

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Luc Bat

The luc bat is a Vietnamese form of poetry.
It means simply "six eight" due to its pattern of syllables per line: 6,8,6,8,6,8, etc. There is no set length to the luc bat, so it can be as long or as short as you'd like.

But what really makes this form interesting is the rhyming structure, which sounds a little complicated but is easy to grasp in practice.

The sixth syllable of every eight-syllable line rhymes with the last syllable of the six-syllable line before it, which in turn rhymes with the eighth syllable of the eight-syllable line before it. When the end of the poem is reached, the last line jumps back and rhymes with the first. In other words, the syllables go like this:

* * * * * a
* * * * * a * b
* * * * * b
* * * * * b * c
* * * * * c
* * * * * c * d
* * * * * d
* * * * * d * a
...although of course the poem can be as long as you wish.
Remember that it is always the final line of the poem which
ends in the "a" rhyme, linking it back to the beginning



Example Poem

Farewell Denied

The ship I sailed and sank
those final years, was dank by then.
I tried to save her when
all hope seemed lost.  My men put out
in boats, and with a shout
"Farewell", I set about to save
that ship in a nearby cave.

I was not really brave; just done.
I thought it might be one
small chance for grounding run in firth.
Slight chance to find some berth
I tried for what it's worth, but failed.

Thru all the years I sailed,
and all the sirens hailed with cheer
I never thought I hear
one close until my dear, you found
me sinking soon to drown.
"I'd love for you to down here stay
and with this sprite now play,
but death to you that way I'll stop."
You brought me to the top.

A mortal life you swap to free
a mortal from the sea
although you wanted me to stay
I clung to life that day,
but thoughts of you held sway since then.
I'll leave the world of men
and dive in where back then, I sank.

© Lawrencealot - August, 2012

Author just noted on review that this poem does
not comply to specifications and will be re-rewritten.

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Melodic

This is a form invented by a poet who writes as  chasingtheday on Allpoetry.com
It is 15 syllables per line and at the beginning of every new line                      
you rhyme with the last word of the previous line.                                      
The first verse is 7 lines,                      
the second verse is 6 lines                      
and third verse is 5 lines.                      
                       
The rhyme for the whole poem is end line rhyme -                      
Rhyme may be perfect rhyme, slant rhyme, or assonance rhyme, or sight rhyme                      
abcabcc                      
defdef                      
ghigg                      
                       
Each new line beginning must be the same rhyme as the              
end line rhyme of the line before it.
The following template may help.  Interpret the rhyme column (a)b as meaning the
first word uses the a-rhyme, the end-word uses the b-rhyme.

Example Poem

Calls for Careful Constant Cogitation   (Melodic)

This form requires lines fifteen syllables long, an internal
Infernal rhyme that's tough, because adjoining words must rhyme, hence
sense must accrue quickly to pairs that seem spaced so far apart.
Start with a new sentence when you need a break,  an external
nocturnal stimulant, like caffeine or nicotine dispensed
condensed into a pot or a pack may elevate your heart
chart and move your muse.  Or kill you like sex, food, or exercise.

Surprise surreptitiously surfaces when stringing sev'ral
caesural sounds sequentially but may lend a lift and lilt.
Tilt your lance and charge capriciously calling for less control.
Enroll enchanting images of white winged fairies with all
enthralled by fluttering and dancing as if on flower quilt.
Stilt your language if antiquities you're planning to enroll.

Droll wit can be levered when you have so many words, but wit
lit out from me this week.  I hoped muse and I could together
gather something credible, (not aiming for incredible)--
bull can only be shoveled just so deep.  But muse chose to sit
it out, and left me all alone.  Thus this time will be no hit.


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Ottava Anna

This is an OTTAVA ANNA Form
Invented by Carol Anne Gordon, aka Mystictarusritr on Allpoetry.com.

Derived from Ottava Rima form

Written in pentameter, frequently iambic.

internal and end-rhyme schemes.
Internal rhyme is on syllable 4 or 5 each line.
External rhyme is on syllable 10 each line.


There is to be a Volta line 4 or 5 or...
\\
Internal ~ abbaaccb
External ~ deeddffe

The rhyme scheme may be turned inside out if you like

Internal ~  deeddffe
External ~  abbaaccb


Example Poem

Pit  Stop

Assistance desired- the girl did perceive
a hunk with the quick good looks she did seek
pumping gas.  Her trick had worked once last week.
Promptly she inquired "What do you believe
has this time transpired that you can relieve?"
The hunk turned away, and started to grieve.
You see he was gay, and hoped to leave soon.
He saw the oil slick- third head pulled this week.

© Lawrencealot - June 2, 2012


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Quaintrell

This form was created by Allpoetry's D.D. Michaels , aka midnightblue

 A poetry form consisting of 3 or more Octets,

with the 8 lines of each Octet having the following syllable count:

8/8/8/6/8/8/8/6, that is to say Iambic Tetrameter in lines 1/2/3/ and 5/6/7,

and Iambic Trimeter in lines 4 and 8.

The rhyme scheme is as follows: a/a/(bb)/c, d/d/(ee)/c.

That means that in the Quatrain of the Octet, lines 1 and 2 rhyme,

in line 3 there is an internal with the end-word,

and line 4 rhymes with line 8 in the following Quatrain of the Octet.

Example Poem

Ode to the Quaintrelles

The Dandizettes pre-dated me.

But, I applaud them they seemed free.

It almost seems they lived their dreams

They stressed by dress, their charms.

In finery these Danizettes

May frequently have been coquettes

They liked to play and found their way

to weathy fellows' arms.

At first some thought them fancy whores,

Bedecked and primed for nighttime chores

and they were spurned, yet they soon earned

respect for charm and grace.

From Europe came their finest clothes

to showcase first;  their standing rose.

Each girl would show the cultural glow,

with happy smiling face.

Equivalent today subsumed

by Hollywood pretense consumed

by any twit though lacking wit

who wants to look the part.

Quaintelles did more than copy styles.

they flaunted them and with their smiles

said okay guys, we are the prize.

They did it with their heart.

© Lawrencealot - April 30, 2012

Author's Notes

A quaintrelle is a woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures. Quaintrelles share the philosophical underpinnings of dandies, developed within feminine nature and styles.   They were also called dandizettes.

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Rannaigheacht bheag (ran-á-yah voig)

A traditional Irish quatrain of 7-syllable lines ('old-school'),

 or 8-6-8-6, ending in 2-syllable words all linked by consonance 

(in its old meaning, 'having the same vowels'),

 with at least two cross-rimes in each couplet

 (can be consonance in first but should be rime in second) 

and alliteration in every line, which in the second couplet

 must be between the last two stressed words in each line, 

and with the dunedh, of course (ending in the same word, phrase,

 or line it began with).

Poem Example

Ron-a'yach Rhyme

Writing rhyming words, giving

living lines, fit for fighting

biting boredom while living

in style with witty writing.

 (c) Lawrencealot - May 16,2012

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As with the other Irish forms, a template can show you the syllable count and a bit more, but cannot be definitive as so much variation

is possible while meeting the formal  requirements.

In the example below some words not hi-lighted could have been as serving one or more rules.

Rannaigheacht mhor (ron-á-yach voor)

Rannaigheacht mhor (ron-á-yach voor, the ‘great versification’) is an ancient Irish quatrain using 7-syllable lines with 1-syllable end-words rimed abab—a-rime can be assonance, but b-rime must be rime, here meaning perfect ‘correspondence’ or Comharda, in which consonants of the same class (p-t-k, m-n-ng etc.) are interchangeable—plus alliteration in every line—preferably between end-word and preceding stressed word (always thus in each quatrain’s closing couplet)—with at least two cross-rimes per couplet (assonance okay in leading couplets), one being L3’s end-word rimed within L4.  Being Irish, it requires the dunedh(first word, phrase, or line repeated in closing).  Each quatrain, as well as each leading couplet, must be able to stand on its own.  Modern specs for this form are given here:

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Example Poem

Great Versifiers

Men sometimes are dreamers, lost,

lust-driven schemers who, when

hunting, deceive.  With trust  tossed

at great cost; none believe men.

(c) Lawrencealot - May 16, 2012

No template can be more than a rough guide, but here one is:

Rishal

A poetry form created by Chindarella consising of four or more 3-line stanzas and a single concluding line.  Each line has 10 syllables. The first line of each stanza is divided into two 5-syllable parts.

No specific meter is required.

In each stanza the first line begins with the second part of the first line from the previous stanza.

The rhyme scheme is aba cdc efe ghg ... x.

The 2nd line in each stanza must have internal rhyme with the 5th syllable

rhyming with the 10th.

( I would presume that poets who opt for iambic or trochaic meter, may adjust

the line segments and interal rhyme syllable accordingly)

The final line does not need to rhyme;

it also begins with the second part of the preceding first line.

Example Poem

Intermission

We all are forewarned, no one is surprised.

Though death awaits all, we all may ride tall.

We can't write death out; script can't be revised.

No one is surprised that our days will end

By some grand design, while most parts are fine

there are no clues that Death's presence portend.

That our days will end, all but children know.

How poor we'd be served if fear were deserved.

Such in not the case, play, love, give, then go.

All but children know our curtain shall fall.

Readied all your life, by faith, friends, and wife,

by, works of hand and mind and love for all.

Our curtain shall fall for intermission.

(c) Lawrencealot -April 29, 2013

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Triquatrain

The form name “Triquatrain” was most likely contrived by Robert L. Huntsman as found listed on shadowpoetry.com. However he most likely stole the credit by giving a name to simple didactic verse. 

This is obvious because “Jack and Jill” was written in the 1760s.

There is also reference to it in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the end of act three: “Jack shall have Jill; Nought shall go ill.”  (Just a little history there) 

It is a quatrain poem in tri-rhyme with a specific rhyming pattern (see below). 

Lines 1 and 3 have internal rhyme whereas lines 2 and 4 do not. 

Rhyme Pattern:

(a,a)

b 

(c,c)

b 

(d,d)

e 

(f,f)

e

(g,g) 

h 

(i,i)

h

Example Poem:

Fred Meets Trixie

Now Fred was nice; he worked in vice

and could not be corrupt.

Take the money, have a honey.

He made them all shut-up.

He closed down rooms that reeked of fumes,

that turned out to be meth.

He smashed their tools, then told the fools,

"Wages of sin are death." 

Prostitution?  His solution:

Arrest each whore and John.

So straight he played, that I'm afraid.

Some councilmen are gone.

Some lovely chicks had turned some dicks,

(Detectives),  I should say.

But, no cutie or real beauty

Could cause our Fred to sway.

Business was down all over town,

confession booths were slow.

The internet was busy yet

it brought no local dough.

Then just by chance one day Fred glanced

across the cafe floor.

As Trixie came (the perfect dame)

right through the joint's front door.

Passions promised in some fashion

many times thru the years,

It seems  absurd without a word

said,  she had meshed his gears!

After they talked, together walked,

She put him to the test.

"Play on my range," she said," for change

is as good as arrest."

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