She Loved Me

Written for Roobear's Writing Workshop: This form is called the Englyn Unodl Crwc

She Loved Me!


The way Ma-ri-a loved me
'I want you for me,' told she;

I think of her and I see her smiling,
At me, her love to be.

© Dr. Taher Kagalwala, 2004

The Prompt is a form of poetry called as [b}Englyn Unodl Crwc. This is a Welsh form of poetry which has the following format:

1st Couplet:
Line 1: 7 syllables, ######A
Line 2: 7 syllables, ######A
Line 3: 10 syllables, ######A plus 3 syllables ### called the "gair cyrch"
Line 4: 6 syllables, #####A

The letter A is the rhyme, while each # represents one syllable.

In my construction, the orange coloured words represent the rhyme A, and the plum coloured words are the "gair cyrch".