Cyrch a Chwta
Type:
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Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
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Description:
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(kirch a choota) An octave of seven-syllable lines rhymed aaaaaaba with cross-rhyme of b in the third, fourth, or fifth syllable of line 8.
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Origin:
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Welsh
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Schematic:
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Rhyme: aaaaaaba
Meter: xxxxxxx xxxxxxa
xxxxxxa xxxxxxa xxxxxxa xxxxxxa xxxxxxa xxxxxxb xxbxxxa or xxxbxxa or xxxxbxa |
Rhythm/Stanza Length:
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8
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Pasted from <http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/000/69.shtml>
My thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for his fine Poetrybase resource.
Example Poem
My Tree (Cyrch a Chwta)
My dad went to war, but he
took time first to plant a tree
when I was a baby, wee.
Dad never came back to me,
he perished when I was three.
I learned of him at mom’s knee
That tree gave shade, let me swing.
That’s something dad knew would be.
© Lawrencealot – April 24, 2014