Without a trace. (Rannaicheacht Ghairid)

by Steven Beesley   Aug 26, 2005


Erased now
I do not know why or how?
Why am I gone from your mind?
So unkind, hatred avow

Without trace
Now fallen from all your grace
I have no place in your heart
Love depart, no more the chase

So much pain
But you are still in my brain
Why are you so cold to me?
You do flee, my life a bane

You are free
She has now served death's decree
Banished me without a doubt
Here I shout like a banshee

Rannaicheacht Ghairid:
An Irish poetic form, is a quatrain stanza of uneven lines. The 1st line has 3 syllables and the other 3 have 7 syllables. Each stanza has a rhyme scheme of aaba, with a cross rhyme between the 3rd and 4th line of each stanza -

xxa
xxxxxxa
xxxxxxb
xxbxxxa

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  • 19 years ago

    by Saravana Kumar S

    Hmm...nice poem....can't understand the style but the poem,i can...take care and keep smiling...FIVE>>>