 Poetry: March 20, 2013 Issue [#5578] |
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This week: Luck o’ the Irish - Irish Poetry Forms Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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Luck o’ the Irish - Irish Poetry Forms
Having finished my plans for corned beef and cabbage for our March 17th festivities, I decided to take an extra helping of Irish and research and share some Irish poetry forms.
Irish (Gaelic) poetry has been around for more than fifteen hundred years. Just like other ancient poetry traditions, Irish poetry began by being passed person-to-person orally (New Princeton 630). There are many Irish poetry forms, but today I will share with you are the Ae Freislighe and the Aicill.
Ae Freislighe aka Ai Fhreisligi
MUST HAVES
--Begins and ends with the same word, phrase or line.
--Use double rhyme in lines one and three, and triple rhyme in lines two and four (Double rhyme example: canyon/banyan (my accent has these rhyming, yours may not, lol); Triple rhyme example: man be one/can we run). The rhyme scheme is ABAB for each stanza—just remember where and when to use the double and triple rhymes.
--Four-line stanzas, with seven syllables in each line (Turco, 122).
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any theme or subject matter.
--Any amount of stanzas.
Aicill
MUST HAVES
--Rhyme the last word of first line with a word inside the second line, the last word of the third line with a word inside the fourth line and continue this rhyme throughout the poem (New Princeton, 26).
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
-- Any type of rhyme.
--Any theme or subject matter.
--Any amount of lines or stanzas.
--Any meter.
SOURCE NOTES:
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
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Theme: Ae Freislighe and Irish theme poetry
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