Tawddgyrch Cadwynog

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 http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/003/306.shtml

My thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for his years of work on the wonderful Poetrybase resource.

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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.

In subsequent stanzas the rhyme may change, but not the pattern, C. D.D. C. and so on.

Pasted from http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/welsh/tawd.html

Many thanks to John Clitheroe for his work on the PoetsGarret site.

My example

A Variable Line Count Poem (Tawddgyrch Cadwynog)

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.

Tawddgyrch Cadwynog

My example

A Variable Line Count Poem (Tawddgyrch Cadwynog)

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

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Tawddgyrch Cadwynog

My example

A Variable Line Count Poem (Tawddgyrch Cadwynog)

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

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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.

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.

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.