She sleeps in bushes, lost her pride,
scruffy Shepherd dog by her side.
Day by empty day occupied - her song . . .
words wrung from love denied.
Vapid voices groan in her head,
demons fight characters she's read,
Her cupboard a shopping cart, bed - a crate.
Who will cry when she's dead?
~~Judi Van Gorder
Byr a Thoddaid the 15th Codified Ancient Welsh Meter
1. stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains made up of 2 couplets,
2. syllabic, either L1-L2 8 syllables, L3 10 syllables L4 6 syllables, or the couplets are reversed L1 10 syllables, L2 6 syllables, L3-L4 8 syllables.
3. rhymed, mono-rhymed.
4. composed with gair cyrch. When the main rhyme of the stanza appears within the body in the last half of a 10 syllable line the syllables following the main rhyme and caesura is the gair cyrch. The last syllable of the gair cyrch is echoed in somewhere in the first half of the next line as secondary rhyme, alliteration, consonance or assonance.
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