The Englyn Milwr
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Topic: The Soldier's Englyn
The Englyn Milwr is toted as the soldier's Englyn, for it was usually set to a war theme. The Englyn Milwr is simple to construct, with each stanza consisting of three lines of seven syllables each. The end line of each line of the stanza will rhyme, and there is no limit to the number of stanzas in the poem. For example, the end words of each line in the first stanza may be end, friend, and send while the end lines of the second stanza may be coal, toll, and roll.

Below, I have included for example my own Englyn Milwr poem. It is not a true Englyn Milwr in the strict sense, for it is not about a physical battle fought by an actual soldier.

Smoothing bolts of pastel oils,
Starkly drawn remembered toils,'
Fiercely revealed canvas foils,

Intercourses' most intimate kind,
Sharing smudge's blended find,
Oil and canvas soon entwine,

My sweet friend I never knew,
Before being touched by you,
Of my brilliant, colored hue,

Colorless void, substance none,
Mirrored visions all and one,
Clouds hiding the brightest sun,

Pastels under my rough skin,
You caressed fondly within,
Blending a palette; love's kin.



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