The Poetic Musings of Dawn

toddaid (#15)

Empty Coffins

The dead can walk under illuminate
bloody moons. Unknown destinations
reflect upon empty eyes. All are lost.
Coffins hold none of his creations.


The Toddaid consists of quatrains, alternating between ten-syllable and nine-syllable lines. A syllable toward the end of the first line rhymes into the middle of the second; the same effect in three and four. Lines two and four rhyme with each other.

You build the Toddaid up like this:

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Additional stanzas are built up in the same way.