Trian Rannaigechta Moire: Poetic Forms
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the trian rannaigechta moire, which is an Irish quatrain form.
The trian rannaigechta moire is an Irish poetic form with the following guidelines:
- Quatrain (or four-line) poem or stanzas.
- Four syllables per line.
- All end words in the stanza (or poem) consonate.
- Second and fourth lines rhyme.
- There's a rhyme between the third and fourth line.
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Play with poetic forms!
Poetic forms are fun poetic games, and this digital guide collects more than 100 poetic forms, including more established poetic forms (like sestinas and sonnets) and newer invented forms (like golden shovels and fibs).
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Here’s my attempt at a trian rannaigechta moire:
O Pamphleteer!, by Robert Lee Brewer
O pamphleteer,
we all react
with tactful yays
or nays, in fact.
Let loose your quick
publication
of radical
education.
O pamphleteer,
whether you're right
or wrong we sing
the song all night,
and new ideas
burn through us fast
for sudden thoughts
ought never last.
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.
