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Poetry: March 18, 2015 Issue [#6880]

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 This week: Some More Luck o’ the Irish
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Irish poetry is lyrical, especially the two forms I'm sharing today, so this quote seems most appropriate:


"And thus there can be little doubt that in the union of Poetry with Music in its popular sense we shall find the widest field for the Poetic development. "
Edgar Allan Poe





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Some More Luck o’ the Irish – Even More Irish poetry forms



Once again having finished my plans for corned beef and cabbage for our March 17th festivities, I’ve again grown hungry. Hungry for an extra helping of Irish, so I’ve gone and researched some more Irish poetry forms to share with you today.

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 the ones I will share with you are the Casbairdne and the Deibhidhe. Both forms employ alliteration and cross rhyme.


Casbairdne

Our first Irish form is the casbairdne.


MUST HAVES

--4 line stanzas with 7 syllables per line.
--Each line ends with a three syllable word.
--Utilizes alliteration in each line.
--Each line end 3 syllable word uses some sort of similar sound as each of the other line end words within the stanza (example: enamored, embryo, emblemize, tomato. Each line ending word has a similar M sound).
--4 or more cross-rhymes per stanza (see example stanza below – each 3 syllable end word is shown as the three syllables together, the first four syllables are spread apart, but in no way implies they must be single syllable words).

S = syllable

s s b s ssa
s a s s ssb
s s s b ssd
s s c s ssb


COULD HAVES or WHAT’S THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?

--Any theme or subject matter.
--Any amount of stanzas.


Deibhidhe

This second form is called the Deibhidhe.


MUST HAVES

--4 line stanzas with 7 syllables per line.
--Rhyme scheme: aabb
--Utilizes alliteration in each line.
--At least 2 cross-rhymes in the second couplet of each stanza.


COULD HAVES or WHAT’S THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?

--Any theme or subject matter.
--Any amount of stanzas.


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: Alas, no has written and posted either a Casbairdne or a Deibhidhe. Please enjoy these Irish poems instead--and perhaps be inspired to write some!

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Natural Ireland in mid-Summer
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A poem for all Irish people away from Ireland on St. Patrick's Day
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Written for a contest by Adagio -
by COUNTRYMOM-JUST REMEMBER ME Author Icon



 
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Comments on last month's newsletter:


From: Cynaemon Author Icon
"To A New LoverOpen in new Window. [18+]
Comment: Hi, Red, Excellent newsletter on the Morning Song. This is a form of poetry I have indulged in for many years. The ending lines of an old poem at wrote called "At Dawn" says "I kissed the dew from your lips/ And you awoke to greet the dawn with joy." Sadly that poem is not in my portfolio. I wrote it over 30 years ago, and I do have a copy of it somewhere. One of my favorite poems written in recent years is "To A New Lover" and I submit it here for your perusal. Best Wishes,


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