Hymie, don’t ask to dig clay
the sun shines all the day wide
bring us to the beach and play
drink and stay by the sea side
There’s time to work tomorrow
cut down the crop anytime
won’t need worries to borrow
take it slow - plumb paradigm.
Rannaigheact Mhor Poem (Irish Form):
- Quatrain with an abab rhyme scheme, including consonant end sounds
- Final sound of poem echoes first sound of poem (common for Irish)
- Heptasyllabic lines, or 7 syllables per line (no meter required)
- Final word of line 4 alliterates with preceding stressed word
- At least 2 cross-rhymes in each couplet of each quatrain
- Final word of line 3 rhymes with interior of line 4
- At least 2 words alliterate in each line
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