Ireland's Castle Ward

Ireland's Castle Ward


Ireland's Castle Ward
Division at heart
It proudly stands guard
Near Strangford Lough

A contradiction
Almost like fiction
Two sides in friction
The house a mock.

Ladyship's Gothic
Lord Bangor's Classic
The split terrific
T'was a deadlock

Oh two-sided house
Your façade a rouse
Of husband and spouse
Yet you're no shock!

About Castle Ward. Built in the 1760s, it has two very different sides, both inside and outside, due to the difference in taste of husband and wife, Lord and Lady Bangor. One half is Classical, the other side is Gothic-revival. It results in a highly unusual castle, yet the house is not a joke, as the idea is executed so faithfully and of high class build.


Cyhydedd Hir Poem:

There are several rhyme schemes and various formats to this poem but for the sake of this contest we will use the following:
There are two stanzas consisting of 8 lines. The stanzas can be separated into four stanzas if desired.(as example shows)
The syllable structure Is 5, 5, 5, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4/ 5, 5, 5, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4
The rhyme scheme is a, a, a, B, c, c, c, B / d, d, d, B, e, e, e, B
The four syllable lines carry the main rhyme from the first octave stanza to the next octave stanza.