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Here’s an attempt at an Awdl Gywydd poetry form:

Nature, by Robert Lee Brewer


When we visit kangaroos,
we go to the zoo and find
every animal we can
from toucans to colorblind
.
elephants and hyenas…
Arenas filled with lions
aren’t as fun as some may guess.
I confess: We were trying,
.
but that’s only nature’s way
of trying to say unsaid
things after the moment’s passed.
Alas, we live ’til we’re satisfied

Awdl Gywydd Poem forms

I love Welsh forms, because they tend to rhyme…and folks tend to ask me how to pronounce them. In this case, awdl gywydd is pronounced “ow-dull gee-youth.” Now, let’s look at the rules:

• Four lines
• Seven syllables per line
• The final syllable of the first and third lines rhyme with the 3rd-5th syllable of the following lines
• The second and fourth lines rhyme.

Here’s a possible version (the a and c rhymes can slide a little):
xxxxxxa
xxaxxxb
xxxxxxc
xxxxcxb