Cyhydedd Hir
Mood:  lyrical
Topic: Cyhydedd Hir





The Cyhydedd Hir (Cuh-hee-dedd heer) is a poem of 16 lines comprised of two sets of eight line stanzas with two quatrains each. The first three lines of each quatrain consists of five syllables, the fifth word of each line rhyming. The fourth line of the first stanza has four syllables and rhymes with the fourth line of the second stanza. Thus, the fourth lines are the main rhymes of the poem, while the other three lines are rhymes amongst themselves. The second set of quatrains contains a new rhyme at the end of the line four, just as each quatrain contains a new rhyme for each of the three five-syllable lines above it. The formula is as follows: (s=syllable)





Stanza 1

ssssa
ssssa
ssssa
sssA
ssssb
ssssb
ssssb
sssA

Stanza 2

ssssc
ssssc
ssssc
sssB
ssssd
ssssd
ssssd
sssB






Life Is Meant To Be Lived

---Tami Krueger


Arsenic's slow song
Plays smoothly along
All that had gone wrong,
Why didn't you flee?
You've muffled the tune,
The lie will end soon,
A crying of loons
From naked trees,

Poison's easy pill
At first made you ill,
But you just sat still
Awaiting death,
Impotent, I cried
Watching as you died,
Fearing death had lied
Near your warm breath.