Seasons

Poetry in Breccbairdne form (described below the poem).

Sing songs of Summer.
Flit among fresh flowers.
Backyard baseball, basking.
Green grass, gardens, showers.

Birdseed fills feeders
for wrens, warblers, swallows.
Air wet from warm weather,
pup in puddle wallows.

Then arrives Autumn,
a bit of a bummer.
We'll waste Winter waiting
to sing songs of Summer.



Breccbairdne form:
> Written in quatrains.
> Each stanza has 4 lines; 2nd & 4th lines must rhyme.
> 1st line has 5 syllables & the other 3 have 6 syllables each.
> Each end word is 2 syllables.
> Written with the defining features of most Celtic poems, cywddydd (harmony of sound):
          - Alliteration (e.g. Clary closed her cluttered clothes closet).
         - Consonance (repetition of consonant sounds within nearby words).
         - Assonance (The sound of a vowel or 2 vowels in one syllable in nonrhyming stressed
                   syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence).
> Dunadh - Ending the poem with the same word, phrase or line with which the poem began.