Ae Freislighe

Type: Structure, metric, rhyme, stanzaic

Description: Accordingly is pronounced ‘ay freshly’. This is an Irish syllabic quatrain stanza form. The simplified version for English language poets is as follows. Each line consists of seven syllables. Lines 1 and 3 of each quatrain ends with a triple syllable rhyme. Lines 2 and 4 of each quatrain ends with a double syllable rhyme. The poem traditionally ends as it began, either the first syllable, word, phrase or line (in Gaelic this is known as a dunedh).

Schematic:

xxxx (xxa)
xxxxx (xb)
xxxx (xxa)
xxxxx (xb)

Stanza length: Quatrain

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