Summer Splendor

Rejoice! Summer is finally here!
Sweet sandy lakes, mountains, and cheap beer.
Dreamy floral scents, camping in a tent.
Toes in cold water, frosty and clear.

The sun-scorched rocks and small mountain towns
hiking, and swimming as sun goes down.
Mosquitos biting, a sasquatch siting,
and the sun-baked skin, flawless and brown.

Vacations, road trips and leisure time,
spent with the family, it's sublime.
When Summer ends, we will have made new friends,
To waste this season should be a crime.




Gwawdodyn Information ▼

The gwawdodyn is a Welsh poetic form with a couple variations. However, both versions are comprised of quatrains (4-line stanzas) that have a 9/9/10/9 syllable pattern and matching end rhymes on lines 1, 2, and 4. The variations are made in that third line:

One version has an internal rhyme within the third line. So there’s a rhyme somewhere within the third line with the end rhyme on the third line.
The other version has an internal rhyme within the third line that rhymes with an internal rhyme in the fourth line.
In both cases, the rhyme starts somewhere in the middle of the third line and it is a unique rhyme to the end rhyme in lines 1, 2, and 4.