He lives in Red Hook, which is the source of many of the book’s oblique images. The young man takes things into his own hands. Publishers are hit badly and are not promoting books by newcomers. The older poet approves of the work and allows his approval to be printed in the book as a kind of preface. He has sent the manuscript to an older poet whose poetry he admires. rhymed, either aaba with the main rhyme A occurring somewhere near the end of 元 and the secondary rhyme b echoed by alliteration or assonance in the first half of L4 or the couplets are reversed baaa.A young man has written a slim book of poems.syllabic, either L1-L2 8 syllables, 元 10 syllables L4 6 syllables, or the couplets are reversed L1 10 syllables, L2 6 syllables, 元-L4 8 syllables.stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains made up of 2 couplets,.The secondary rhyme is then echoed by alliteration or assonance in the first half of the next line. This form makes use of the gair cyrch in which the main rhyme appears somewhere near the end of a longer line and the end word is a secondary rhyme. Specifically, all but the last line of the first stanza and the penultimate line of the second have Cynghanedd lusg (trailing consonance), in which the accented penultimate syllable of the end-word is rimed earlier in the line (the part of each 10-syllable line after the dash being excluded) S1L4 and S2元, then, both have Cynghanedd groes (cross-consonance), in which the second part of the line repeats the sequence of consonant sounds in the first (end of last syllable of either sequence can be ignored, as can n, while w and y the Welsh treat as vowels). This poem has the Cynghanedd (consonance, harmony of sound) required of Welsh bards, as detailed here: Photo credit: Visual Visual templateīyr a Thoddaid (beer ah TOE-thy’d), one of the 24 traditional Welsh stanza forms, consists of four lines of syllable count 10/6/8/8 (or 8/8/10/6), rimed on last syllable except for the 10-syllable line, which has the main rime on the 7th, 8th, or 9th syllable with the remainder set off by dash and either rimed within the 6-syllable line or with its sequence of consonant-sounds repeated at the start of the 6-syllable line, as above. My Exampleįear of Heights (Cantar) Upon this precipice I sitįor I’m an acrophobic man. My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on this fine PMO resource. When written in octasyllabic lines it is called a Serrano. It is often written in 5 syllable lines without prescribed number of lines or rhyme, both at the discretion of the poet. It is often a light hearted poem built around the meeting of a gentleman and a pretty country girl. The Seranilla (Spanish – little mountain song) is a short lined strophic sub genre of 14th century Galician-Portuguese cantigas.They are written in simple strophic forms, with repetition, variation, and parallelism, and most often include a refrain They are the largest body of female-voiced love lyrics of medieval times. The voice could be the woman, her mother, her sister, or her friend, the subject is always the male lover. Cantiga de Amigo is a subgenre of the Cantiga, it is the female voice speaking of a lover.The frame of the Cantiga is at the poet’s discretion although 8 syllable lines are common. The themes were focused on the individual, a woman singing to her lover, a man to his lady, and the best known cantigas were about the miracles of the Virgin Mary. Rhythm and musicality were central while the words were limited. The Galician-Portuguese poetic genre was written between the 12th and 14th centuries. The Cantiga is a predecessor of the Cantar.Cantar by Judi Van Gorder The windward breeze sings high tenor

L1 and 元 are unrhymed however the end syllable should be stressed.

rhymed, L2 and L4 rhyme with assonance, sometimes true rhyme but generally not.

syllabic, all lines written in 8 syllables.a 4 line strophe written as a stand alone poem or combined with other forms such as the Seguidilla or Flamenca.Cantar is the Spanish verb “to sing” and in Spanish literature is loosely used as a noun for the “words for a song”. The form dates back to 15th century Spain. The Cantar in verse is an octosyllabic quatrain that assonates and is usually limited to one strophe.

Rimed two strophes