The Medieval Poetic Forms Project
This is a new meta-project, provoked in equal part by the difficulty I had in composing verse in the Welsh cywydd form, and by the Laurel Sponsored Prize Display at Strawberry Raid V in which I talked about that and other poetic forms. The plan is to work my way up to the cywydd by…
A Deibhidhe
A Deibhidhe I’ve written up the rules of the deibhidhe form. It’s not an easy one to write in; the first couple of lines are easy, but the constraints increase as you go. For the first line, you just need seven syllables and some alliteration. By the time you get to line 4, it needs…
As The Sea Opposes Building (A Sonnet)
In this post I’m going to present a sonnet as I wrote it, and then make it more period-appropriate.