Gwawdodyn Hir: Poetic Forms
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the gwawdodyn hir, a Welsh six-line stanza or poem.
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the gwawdodyn hir, a Welsh six-line stanza or poem.
Gwawdodyn Hir Poems
The gwawdodyn hir is a six-line Welsh poetic form that may sound familiar to regular readers, because we just covered the gwawdodyn byr last week.
Here are the basic guidelines:
- Sestet (or six-line stanza) form
- Nine syllables in the first four lines
- Ten syllables in the final two lines
- Lines one, two, three, four, and six end rhyme
- The end of line five rhymes with a syllable in line six
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Here’s my attempt:
Languish, by Robert Lee Brewer
Move the blood around your beating heart
and provide our love a chance to start
as if you're the horse and I'm the cart
or lost explorer without a chart
to know the universe or words to say
through these silent days when we're both apart.
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
