Englyn Proest Dalgron: Poetic Forms
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the englyn proest dalgron, a Welsh quatrain form.
For this week's poetic form, we're examining another version of the englyn, which is usually a tercet (three-line stanza) or quatrain (four-line stanza) form. The englyn proest dalgron is a quatrain version with simple rules for a Welsh form.
Here are the guidelines for the englyn proest dalgron:
- Poem comprised of quatrains
- Each line has seven syllables
- All lines within each quatrain consonate or rhyme on a dipthong
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Here's my attempt at an Englyn Proest Dalgron poem:
"This Past Moment," by Robert Lee Brewer
Leave me a moment to sing
about our gang signs and slang
whenever we hang (or hung),
because we are rarely wrong
in this moment (or the past)
that haunts us as if a ghost
or, perhaps, taunts like a pest
who counts it up as a cost.
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.
