Type: Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
Description: (TOWDD-girch ca-DOY-nog) This is a Welsh line form consisting of three to five sections of tetrasyllabic verse with abbc or abba rhyme that continues into the next line.
Origin: Welsh
Schematic:
xxxa xxxb xxxb xxxc
xxxa xxxb xxxb xxxc
Or:
xxxa xxxb xxxb xxxa
xxxa xxxb xxxb xxxa
The scheme follows through at least two lines, then can change.
Pasted from Poetry Base/Poetry Gnosis, with thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for his years of work on the wonderful resource.
This form consists of stanzas of usually four, lines, of four syllables: A. B. B. A.
Like the Rhupunt, it is common to join the lines together and end up with the two stanzas making a couplet.
X X X A X X X B X X X B X X X A.
X X X A X X X B X X X B X X X A.
In subsequent stanzas the rhyme may change, but not the pattern, C. D.D. C. and so on.
Pasted from The Poets Garret, with thanks to John Clitheroe for his work on the site.
My Example
Form: Tawddgyrch Cadwynog
A Variable Line Count Poem
To get it right
pen four by four
then add four more;
that’s how you write.
This form is tight
and furthermore
it is a chore
that does delight.
Two quatrains do
a couplet make;
and then you take
them up by two
(I know you knew),
for heaven’s sake
this takes the cake,
a brand new view.
OR
To get it right pen four by four
then add four more; that’s how you write.
This form is tight and furthermore
it is a chore that does delight.
Two quatrains do a couplet make;
and then you take them up by two
(I know you knew), for heaven’s sake
this takes the cake, a brand new view.
OR
To get it right pen four by four then add four more; that’s how you write.
This form is tight and furthermore it is a chore that does delight.
Two quatrains do a couplet make; and then you take them up by two
(I know you knew), for heaven’s sake this takes the cake, a brand new view.
© Lawrencealot – January 26, 2015
