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Eat Your Vegetables: A Cywydd llosgyrnog

Eat Your Vegetables

This is a poem about peas,
And other produce that will please,
Without cheese, veggie lovers.
Portobello mushroom salad,
With red onions is not pallid:
A ballad you discover.

Poet's Note: ▶︎

Line Count:
Form: Cywydd llosgyrnog (ku-with los-gear-nog)  
Number of lines: Down to the individual poet
Rules: A 12th century Welsh form written in six-line stanzas. Each stanza is comprised of two lines of eight syllables and a third line of seven syllables. Lines 1 and 2 rhyme and cross-rhyme with syllable 3 or 4 of line 3. This pattern is then followed for the next three lines. Lines 3 and 6 also rhyme.

This gives a stanza pattern of:

x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x a
x x a x x x b
x x x x x x x c
x x x x x x x c
x x c x x x b

Choices for the poets to make this week: This form can be composed of as many or as few stanzas as the poet wishes.
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