Poetic Form 45: Hir a Thoddaid

Hometown

The streets are the same, but names and some

buildings have changed. I am now an alum

of the school. Football in the snow, numb

hands, burning lungs, I ran, becoming

a man I believed would change all the rules.

Yet, this small town, my history from.

Poetic Form #45 Hir a Thoddaid

The hir a thoddaid structure is as follows: (Xs are syllables).

1-xxxxxxxxa

2-xxxxxxxxa

3-xxxxxxxxa

4-xxxxxxxxa

5-xxxxxxxbxx

6-xxbxxxxxa

Line 5 has 10 syllables. The other 5 lines have 9 syllables. The "b" rhyme is open 
to be near the end of line 5, then somewhere in the first half of line 6. There is a 
little freedom with that rhyme.