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My Notes - Poetic Form - Cyhydedd Fer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type: Metric; Rhyme; Isosyllabic.

Description: Welsh in origin the cyhydedd fer is comprised of rhyming octosyllabic couplets, ideally iambic tetrameter though not essentially so.

Schematic

xxxxxxxa
xxxxxxxa

 

 

Example: As Children Sleep  by Jem Farmer

 

A peace descends as children sleep,

when mother sighs, her soul to keep,

 

The precious times recall the day,

with wine and love, a father's way.

 

 

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