Cool like grass
But alas
Breezy freeze
Frostbiting
Lingers long
Sunshine’s throng
Springtime song
Inviting
In honor of the day, I decided to try penning a poem of Irish origins. The Snam Suad won out over the other forms I investigated.
According to Writer’s Digest, the Snam Suad has the following rules:
- poem contains one eight-line stanza
- all lines have 3 syllables with the following rhyme pattern: aabcdddc
- lines four and eight are 3-syllable words, all other lines end in monosyllabic words
- lines two and three share consonance
- lines three and four, six and seven, and four and seven share alliteration
- line seven uses alliteration
I had to write and revise several times, and I followed nearly all of the rules. For those rules I missed, well, rules are meant to be broken, right?
How did I do?
Published by TheOtherKLM
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