I Write
Write well they say, yet I fail.
A tall tail a price to pay.
Maybe I can’t find ways, hail
the sale of my dang dismay.
Carve my name in bright paper
a caper for the fast flight.
No daylight say skyscrapers
cuts razors right, I will write.
Poetic Form #97: Rannaigheact Mhor
The rannaigheact mhor form is a complicated Welsh form:
Quatrain with an abab rhyme scheme, including consonant end sounds
7 syllables per line
2 cross-rhymes in each couplet of each quatrain
Final word of line 3 rhymes with interior of line 4
2+ words alliterate in each line
Final word of line 4 alliterates with preceding stressed word
Final sound of the poem echoes the first sound of the poem
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