Tawddgyrch Cadwynog: Poetic Forms
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the tawddgyrch cadwynog, a Welsh poetic form.
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the tawddgyrch cadwynog, a Welsh poetic form.
Tawddgyrch Cadwynog Poems
The tawddgyrch cadwynog is a Welsh poetic form with at least two quatrains and recurring end rhymes. Here are the guidelines:
- Composed of pairs of quatrains (or four-line stanzas).
- Each pair of quatrains rhyme abbc/abbc.
- Four syllables per line.
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Here’s my attempt at an tawddgyrch cadwynog:
fee, by Robert Lee Brewer
give me one thing
or maybe two
that's red or blue
and just for me
and i will sing
a song so true
that even you
will feel set free
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.
