Hope ~ Cywydd Llosgyrnog Poems

Mate, It's just a fall not an end

Trees will stand tall when leaves transcend

A turn godsend trust with hope

And dawn is just a night away

Holding as one with love in the fray

Sanguine ways to cross a tightrope

Note: Cywydd Llosgyrnog Poems

Besides the spelling of the name, a poet can figure out this is a Welsh form pretty quick because it’s a syllabic-based form with internal rhymes. Here’s the structure of this six-line form (with the letters acting as syllables and the a’s, b’s, and c’s signifying rhymes:

1-xxxxxxxa

2-xxxxxxxa

3-xxxaxxb

4-xxxxxxxc

5-xxxxxxxc

6-xxxcxxb

So lines 1, 2, 4, and 5 are 8 syllables in length with lines 1 and 2 rhyming as well as lines 4 and 5. Lines 3 and 6 have 7 syllables and rhyme with each other; plus, line 3 has an internal rhyme with lines 1 and 2 while line 6 has an internal rhyme with lines 4 and 5. No other rules as far as subject matter or meter.