Now did you expect that I'd leave you hanging there with nothing to do but twiddle your thumbs in idle bordom?
With that said, let's get straight to it...
Tenth: Rannaicheacht Ghairid (ron-a'yach cha'r-rid)
Definition:
A quatrain stanza with uneven lines. The first line has three syllables, the other three have seven. The stanza rhymes a a b a, with a cross-rhyme between three and four.
Layout:
A x a
x x x x x x a
x x x x x x b
x x x x x x A
Eleventh: Rannaicheacht Mhor (ron-a'yach voor)
Definition:
A quatrain stanza of heptasyllabic lines consonating abab. There are at least two cross-rhymes in each couplet and the final word of line three rhymes with a word in the interior of line four. In the second couplet, the rhymes must be exact, but the first couplet need only consonate.
layout:
B C x x b x a c
x x x a x x b c
x b x x x x a c
x x a x x x B C
Twelfth: Rionnaird Tri-Nard (ru'n-ard tree-nard)
Definition:
A quatrain stanza of hexasyllabic lines with disyllabic endings. Lines two and four rhyme, and three consonates with them. There are two cross rhymes in the second couplet, none in the first. There is alliteration in each line, and the last syllable of line one alliterates with the first accented word of line two. There are two cross-rhymes in the second couplet.
Layout:
x x x x (x a)
x x x x (x bc)
x b x x (x c)
x x c x (x bc)
Thirteenth: Séadna (shay'-na)
Definition:
A quatrain stanza of alternating octosyllabic lines with disyllabic endings and heptasyllabic lines with monosyllabic endings. Lines two and four rhyme, line three rhymes with the stressed word preceding the final word of line four. There are two cross-rhymes in the second couplet. There is alliteration in each line, the final word of line four alliterating with the preceding stressed word. The final syllable of line one alliterates with the first stressed word of line two.
Layout:
B x x x x x (x a)
x x x x x x b
x x x x c x (x c)
x b x c x x B
Fourteenth: Sneadhbhairdne (sna-vuy-erd-ne)
Definition:
A quatrain stanza of alternating eight syllable lines and four syllable lines with two syllable endings. Lines two and four rhyme, line three consonates with both. All words in the final line must rhyme line, the final word of line four alliterating with the preceding stressed word.
Layout:
(x B x x x x (x a)
x x (x b )
x x x x x (b c)
b b (x B )
Don't worry nor fret more is to come
*\Now did you expect that I'd leave you hanging there with nothing to do but twiddle your thumbs in idle bordom?
With that said, let's get straight to it...
With that said, let's get straight to it...
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