Autumn has gone
Winters drawn close
And blows all day
The snow plays there
And bares it all in the air
Leaves turning brown
Breeze around stir
Cold spurns the sun
And then one hides
And runs till the other just dies
Yes, winter is here
Spring is near again
And rain and snow
Falls and flows all
That shows in its way and calls.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2007
January.23.2015
Written on....January,17,2007
This week's Form Over Substance featured form is the:
Ya-Du
The Ya-Du is a Burmese form with syllable and rhyme requirements.
They generally make references to seasons. The structure of the
Ya-Du is as follows:
- Can use up to three stanzas (verses)
- Each stanza is five (5) lines - the first four (4) stanzas are
four syllables each, and the last line can be either 5, 7, 9, or
11 syllables - your choice
- Reference to seasons
- Rhyme scheme: in groups of 3 lines, the middle line being a
common link. Rhyme is in 4th syllables of first line, 3rd
syllable of second line, and 2nd syllable of third line. The last
two syllables also rhyme. So it would look like this:
xxxa
xxax
xaxb
xxbc
xbx...c - "..." is used as the line can be 5, 7, 9, or 11 syllables.
